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THE SERVERLESS COMPUTING: THE PLUSES AND MINUSES

OF THIS VERY NEW CONCEPT

By Milica D. Djekic

The cloud’s computing is a quite recent paradigm that would offer you a chance to store
your content on the web. Many experts would discuss how secure this concept is and
according to those findings – we should work hard in order to assure the better security
to these systems. The cloud’s technology is a web-based paradigm providing us an
opportunity to manage data, files and even much sophisticated contents on the internet.
For those purposes – the cloud’s systems would use servers and data centers as well
as some internet communication channels in order to maintain a talk with their
databases and services.

Through the past period of time – the cloud’s access control could appear as the
ongoing concern to its security, but at this stage – we would notice that the cloud’s
access control is not that concerning – because many industry players would know how
to tackle this issue. On the other hand, the cloud’s technologies would undoubtedly
need the stronger encryption if we talk about their communications and data storage.
From the user’s experience perspective – the cloud’s environment would seem as any
other web location using the web browser to get called on.

The studies would show that so many people worldwide would use the cloud-based
systems and they would not even get aware that they deal with such a technology. Well,
the topic of this effort would suggest that we would cope with the serverless computing,
but though this article – we would talk about the cloud’s systems. So, why is it important
to understand the cloud’s technologies – before you start thinking about the serverless
computing? And, what is that serverless for real and why we would need to pay more
attention to that concept? At this stage, let’s begin our discussion about this very new
paradigm trying to explain why it matters and what its advantages and disadvantages
are.

The serverless computing is a sort of the cloud’s technology which primary role is to
store programming code on the web. The first commercial usages of this concept would
start with the AWS Lambda solution that would enter the marketplace in 2014. Next, the
very first adaptation of this effort would begin at the end of 2016 and from this
perspective – we can say that the serverless computing is still at its very beginning. The
time would show if we would accept or reject this solution in the future. Also, it’s
significant to mention that there would not exist a lot of research efforts regarding this
area of an interest – because this technology is still quite new.

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