From the course: Java: Serverless Applications on AWS
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Why serverless?
From the course: Java: Serverless Applications on AWS
Why serverless?
- [Instructor] Serverless can be summarized as a haiku poem by Onsi Fakhouri. "Here is my source code. Run it on the cloud for me. I do not care how," which means I don't want to know the specifics of it, just make it work. A lot of times software development looks like this. You have a server, maybe even a Docker container, and you find yourself spending a ton of time doing things that are not code, and a precious little time doing things that you actually care about your code. This is where we come to our first benefit. It is far, far faster to develop and deploy new applications using serverless platforms. Do your customer's care about Java runtime or the version of Linux you're running on? Did you ever get rewarded for upgrading the runtime version or establishing a security patch? They don't care, they want features. The goal of serverless is don't worry about the underlying operating system and any kind of platform…
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