Serverless Under the Hood

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Compares major serverless FaaS offerings (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions) and explains how they work internally, including scaling limits and billing (GB-seconds). Describes the unique advantages and pitfalls of current cloud serverless implementations and gives guidance on choosing the most appropriate serverless provider.

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1. 0:00Serverless introduction
2. 2:26What is serverless
3. 7:44Serverless tradeoffs
4. 8:07Azure Functions
5. 15:39Amazon Lambda
6. 23:06Google Cloud Functions
7. 25:57Cloudflare Workers
8. 28:27Scalability tests
9. 30:11Cold start problem
10. 37:25Async data processing
11. 44:50Stack Overflow traffic
12. 47:45Scalability challenges
13. 54:27Future of serverless
14. 57:56Q&A

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