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Serverless computing lets businesses and application developers focus on the program they need to run, without worrying about the machine on which it runs, or the resources it requires.

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Why Serverless Computing? https://www.lynda.com/IT-Infrastructure-tutorials/Why-serverless-computing/599623/638412-4.html

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 2
February 2018
94 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/3181977
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Published: 23 January 2018
Published in CACM Volume 61, Issue 2

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