Serverless
[/ˈsɜːrvərles/]
Definitions
A cloud execution model where the provider manages server infrastructure automatically. Developers deploy individual functions that scale from zero to millions of invocations without provisioning or maintaining servers. "Serverless" doesn't mean no servers exist — just that you don't manage them.
“The app scaled to 100,000 concurrent users during the launch without any ops intervention, thanks to serverless.”
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