Serverless Computing
Concepts and terms for serverless architectures.
The data
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- Concept
- Function as a Service
- Description
- Event-driven functions executed in ephemeral containers.
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- Concept
- Event-Driven
- Description
- Functions triggered by events such as HTTP requests or queue messages.
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- Concept
- Cold Start
- Description
- Latency from initializing a function runtime after idle time.
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- Concept
- Stateless
- Description
- Functions do not retain state between invocations.
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- Concept
- API Gateway
- Description
- Managed service routing HTTP requests to functions.
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- Concept
- Pay-Per-Use
- Description
- Billing based on actual execution time and request count.
Fetch the same bytes
The static files are identical to what the API returns, but with no rate limit and no server round trip. Use the API when you want a query and a content type; use the files when you want to cache one document.
curl "https://yjtoon.com/api/dataset/serverless-computing?format=toon"
const res = await fetch( "https://yjtoon.com/static-data/dataset/serverless-computing.toon" ); const toon = await res.text();
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