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Serverless: A Quick and Dirty Overview

Serverless: A Quick and Dirty Overview

If you keep listening, you’re going to hear people talk about serverless computing. Here’s a simplified history that projects into the…

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Michael David Cobb Bowen
Apr 20, 2017
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If you keep listening, you’re going to hear people talk about serverless computing. Here’s a simplified history that projects into the future.

In the beginning was the mainframe, the most successful of which was the IBM System 360. Back then, hardware was much more difficult than it was, and for the tasks hardware could do, operating systems were much mo…

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