Serverless Compute

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Google Cloud Functions

AWS Lambda If you're in Azure, your equivalent service is Azure Functions. For Google, this is Google Functions (yes, AWS just HAD to be different). Regardless of its name, all of these services fulfill the same purpose - a small compute building block to house your business logic code. An AWS Lambda function is simply the code you want to run, written in your language of choice (I preference Python, but Typescript and Java are popular options). In your infrastructure code, you specify some lambda function basics, like name, path to the business logic code, security role, and what runtime you're using, and optionally have the ability to control more parameters like timeout, concurrency, aliases, and more. Lambda even has built in integrations to other AWS services, such as S3 and SQS (we'll get to these) to make application development even easier. Additionally, lambda functions are priced based on the number of times they're invoked and the duration of time they run, making them exceptionally affordable.

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Amazon SQS

AWS Lambda If you're in Azure, your equivalent service is Azure Functions. For Google, this is Google Functions (yes, AWS just HAD to be different). Regardless of its name, all of these services fulfill the same purpose - a small compute building block to house your business logic code. An AWS Lambda function is simply the code you want to run, written in your language of choice (I preference Python, but Typescript and Java are popular options). In your infrastructure code, you specify some lambda function basics, like name, path to the business logic code, security role, and what runtime you're using, and optionally have the ability to control more parameters like timeout, concurrency, aliases, and more. Lambda even has built in integrations to other AWS services, such as S3 and SQS (we'll get to these) to make application development even easier. Additionally, lambda functions are priced based on the number of times they're invoked and the duration of time they run, making them exceptionally affordable.

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Amazon S3

AWS Lambda If you're in Azure, your equivalent service is Azure Functions. For Google, this is Google Functions (yes, AWS just HAD to be different). Regardless of its name, all of these services fulfill the same purpose - a small compute building block to house your business logic code. An AWS Lambda function is simply the code you want to run, written in your language of choice (I preference Python, but Typescript and Java are popular options). In your infrastructure code, you specify some lambda function basics, like name, path to the business logic code, security role, and what runtime you're using, and optionally have the ability to control more parameters like timeout, concurrency, aliases, and more. Lambda even has built in integrations to other AWS services, such as S3 and SQS (we'll get to these) to make application development even easier. Additionally, lambda functions are priced based on the number of times they're invoked and the duration of time they run, making them exceptionally affordable.

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AWS Lambda

The key compute resource everyone immediately associates serverless with is AWS Lambda. I want to be clear here - AWS Lambda is a large part of the serverless ecosystem, BUT Lambda ≠ serverless. Just because you include a lambda function in your application does not automatically make you serverless. Likewise, just because you build a service completely out of lambda functions also does not mean you have a serverless application. Serverless is a mindset, a new way of thinking; there are tons of tools and services out there that will help you build serverless applications, but implementing them does not mean you have a serverless application. We need to be intentional with our design, and where & how we use these resources.

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