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Serverless Computing: Principles and Paradigms

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies ((LNDECT,volume 162))

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Serverless computing is an innovative method for the production and distribution of software since it does not rely on a centralised server management infrastructure. As a result of this, serverless computing is becoming more widespread. Instead, the cloud service provider must ensure that the code will execute as intended in the cloud environment. Because everything is taken care of automatically, developers are free to concentrate on creating code rather than establishing and maintaining the infrastructure that is necessary for their programmes to execute. This frees up more time for the developers to work on their projects. This chapter introduces serverless computing and associated technologies. Further, this work summarizes the work done in this book, recent developments and presents future directions.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India

    Rajalakshmi Krishnamurthi

  2. School of Computer Science, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, Uttrakhand, India

    Adarsh Kumar

  3. School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

    Sukhpal Singh Gill

  4. Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Rajkumar Buyya

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    Adarsh Kumar

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    Sukhpal Singh Gill

  4. School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Rajkumar Buyya

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Krishnamurthi, R., Kumar, A., Gill, S.S., Buyya, R. (2023). Serverless Computing: New Trends and Research Directions. In: Krishnamurthi, R., Kumar, A., Gill, S.S., Buyya, R. (eds) Serverless Computing: Principles and Paradigms. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 162. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26633-1_1

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