Serverless functions
Serverless Functions, also known as Functions as a Service (FaaS), are a cloud computing execution model where developers deploy individual functions that execute in response to events, with the cloud provider dynamically managing all underlying infrastructure, scaling, and servers. This allows…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2014
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Serverless Functions solve the problem of server management overhead, idle resource costs, and manual scaling in traditional server-based and even PaaS deployments, enabling developers to focus purely on code while achieving automatic scaling to zero and pay-per-use economics that predecessors like VMs or PaaS could not fully provide without residual infrastructure concerns.[1][2][4]
- Platforms
- AWS Lambda, Vercel Functions, Azure Functions, Cloudflare Workers, Knative, Google Cloud Functions, OpenFaaS
Related technologies
Notable users
- Netflix
- Coca-Cola
- iRobot
- AWS customers
- Google Cloud users
- Microsoft Azure users