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What is Serverless?

Explore serverless computing to understand how it eliminates infrastructure maintenance tasks, automatically scales resources, and reduces costs. Learn about its benefits like improved developer productivity and elasticity, as well as challenges such as portability and debugging complexities.

Dealing with infrastructure entails various tasks. For example, upgrading operating systems, applying security patches, and executing regular maintenance of physical connections. In a company, such tasks are carried out by different people who have expertise in each case. Having these roles in a company also implies that the company has to spend some money, and probably a large chunk of their budget, on these types of tasks. Apart from that, maintenance tasks may involve some risk due to problems or human mistakes. In this lesson, you’ll learn the alternative solution that companies deploy to avoid spending money on maintenance.

Understanding serverless computing

With the advent of cloud computing, many ...