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Cloud Services Without Servers: What’s behind it

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Start image of a video in which Würzburg computer science Professor Samuel Kounev explains what “serverless computing” is – and what it is not. (Image: Screenshot von Vimeo.de / ACM)

A new generation of cloud services is on the rise. It is based on the paradigm of ‘serverless computing’. A recent article deals with the history, status and potential of serverless computing.

In cloud computing, commercial providers make computing resources available on demand to their customers over the Internet. This service is partly offered “serverless,” that is, without servers. How can that work? Computing resources without a server, isn’t that like a restaurant without a kitchen?

“The term is misleading,” says computer science Professor Samuel Kounev from Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JM...

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