Eariler in the month AWS went down, well, parts of it and as you might expect being the biggest of the cloud providers it caused a number of other services to go offline. And of course, it was DNS fault. Domain Name System (DNS) is the service that translates human friendly names into computer friendly numbers, IP addresses. It’s one of the fundentmental services that runs our modern digital world....
Serverless doesn’t somehow make your code run without physical servers. You still need servers, it’s just your treating your servers like you would code. However, it goes beyond just infrastructure as code (IaaS), it’s utilizing the cloud. Let’s get something clear, the cloud is nothing more than someone else’s server and for this post, I’m defining the cloud as any service provider who allows you run compute by the millisecond. The reason the cloud is such a major thing is that it allows you to treat commodity hardware as a commodity....