Re:Justin.tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture (2010)
by NetOpWibby on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @11:11AM
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I finally understand the difference. Thank you.
Re:Justin.tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture (2010)
by UweSchmidt on Thursday July 04, 2019 @12:06PM
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Great explanation!
"Serverless" describes how a deployment artifact is deployed and runs. Generally it refers to a class of technologies in multiple domains whereby intricate knowledge of the underlying host is abstracted behind a cleaner API, with things like scaling, security, patching, etc handled by an infrastructure provider. While the term rose in prominence alongside "functions as a service", which is certainly a technology that generally qualifies as serverless, there are many serverless products out there: AWS Fargate for running containers, DynamoDB for a database, S3 for object storage, all of these are "serverless". A good signal is: if I can SSH into it, its not serverless.
A microservice can certainly be deployed serverless (ECS/Fargate or Google Cloud Run comes to mind). A microservice can even refer to one or more logically related functions-as-a-service; the term more-so speaks to how the engineering teams organize their business domain into the code and how the APIs speak to each other, rather than the exact underlying technologies.