FaaS: Evolving to a Truly Serverless Paradigm

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By Richard Edwards on August 14, 20202 CommentsTrue serverless helps alleviate some of the administration and management issues related to FaaS

Engineers must address complex operational issues, including provisioning, configuration and how their code will behave over a distributed architecture.

As an application scales, scripting architectures and defining how different containers communicate with one another becomes exponentially complex.

A platform that looks after the infrastructure of an entire application (as opposed to specific functions) is the logical evolution of FaaS, and represents a truly serverless paradigm.

By contrast, serverless could reduce an application engineered with Chef, Docker, Kubernetes, the JVM and Akka to a single abstraction.

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