From the course: AWS for Developers: Data-Driven Serverless Applications with Kinesis (2019)

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Functions as a service (FaaS)

Functions as a service (FaaS) - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: AWS for Developers: Data-Driven Serverless Applications with Kinesis (2019)

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Functions as a service (FaaS)

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- [Instructor] So now we know what backend as a service is. Let's talk about what is Function as a Service. Function as a Service is quite a new concept. It was born in November 2014 on AWS ran it when AWS launched AWS Lambda, the first popular function as a service platform. After that severals took off. Function as a service is a new way to execute and design applications. So let's see traditionally how code execute, so we can understand this. So in a traditional application, we have an instance. It can be a computer or a real time machine or an AWS EC2. There is an application install. That application is running all the time. No matter if there is requests or not. That application has many different functionalities that can be or cannot be related, depending on how monolithic your application is. There's some problems with this system. We need to have a way to scale the application if the application is successful or not. In platforms like AWS, we can use some scalability services…

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