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O’Reilly serverless survey 2019: Concerns, what works, and what to expect

O'Reilly

Rather than buying racks and racks of servers that need to handle the maximum potential traffic and be idle most of the time, it seems that serverless’ method of paying by compute is proving to be beneficial to the bottom lines of organizations. As noted earlier, the majority of survey respondents are software engineers.

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A 5G future

O'Reilly

5G enthusiasts frequently say it’s an enabling technology for autonomous vehicles (AV), which will need high bandwidth to download maps and images, and perhaps even to communicate with each other: AV heaven is a world in which all vehicles are autonomous and can therefore collaboratively plan traffic.

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Revisiting “Serverless Architectures”

The Symphonia

I also rewrote the section on Startup Latency since Cold Starts are one of the big “FUD” areas of Serverless. I was glad to be able to talk about Amazon’s automated traffic shifting / canary releases. I also wrote an article on just this area last year. I also added under tooling the need for better tools for ‘meta operations’?