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What is Serverless?

Kubernetes Bytes

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AWS Lambda vs Functions as a Service

AWS Lambda has been around for a while. They do have that cold start problem where whenever your function is triggered, it has to create a new execution environment. But with snap start, only the first one will and then for everything else, you'll have a snapshot of your execution environment ready to go. It drastically reduces the amount of time that is spent on spinning things up. That was one of the things that was announced. I think the second thing was around a Lambda function URL. So what this means is usually if you're doing Lambda, you have to have different AWS components running in front of your Lambda function. With Lambda function, what you can do

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