Serving Up Serverless Science
The “serverless” trend has become the new hot topic in cloud computing. Instead of running Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) instances to provide a service, individual functions are executed on demand.
This has been a boon to the web development world, as it allows the creation of UI-driven workloads without the administrative overhead of provisioning, configuring, monitoring, and maintaining servers. Of course, the industry has not yet reached the point where computation can be done in thin air, so there are still servers involved somewhere. The point is that the customer is not concerned with mundane tasks such as operating system patching and …
Serving Up Serverless Science was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.