From the course: Building Serverless Xamarin Apps with Azure

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Why serverless

Why serverless

From the course: Building Serverless Xamarin Apps with Azure

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Why serverless

- [Instructor] There can be many reasons to use or not use Serverless. Here are a few reasons why you do want to use Serverless. Number one, think about the server less. We have seen this before in a previous video. By using Serverless, there are, of course, still servers involved. They are just abstracted away to the point that we do not have to be concerned with our servers, whether they are virtual, or physical, or how they are configured. Just focus on what matters most, your content. Another good reason to use Serverless is that it scales on demand. We don't even have to think about it ourselves. Whenever more requests start coming in, the Serverless runtime will automatically allocate and provision more instances of our functionality. This makes it very suitable to start out small, but it poses no problem when your audience starts to grow. Maybe the best reason to use Serverless is because it's very cheap. We only pay for the amount of time that it takes to execute our function.…

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