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Journey to Event Driven – Part 3: The Affinity Between Events, Streams and Serverless

Confluent

Given that it is at a relatively early stage, developers are still trying to grok the best approach for each cloud vendor and often face the following question: Should I go cloud native with AWS Lambda, GCP functions, etc., The key to event-first systems design is understanding that a series of events captures behavior.

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Where Programming, Ops, AI, and the Cloud are Headed in 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

in 2008 and continuing with Java 8 in 2014, programming languages have added higher-order functions (lambdas) and other “functional” features. We’ll be working with microservices and serverless/functions-as-a-service in the cloud for a long time–and these are inherently concurrent systems. Starting with Python 3.0 FaaS, a.k.a.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

Based on the answer to these questions, Amazon introduced a service called Lambda in 2014 that responds to events quickly and inexpensively. Lambda replaced the need for customers to pay for servers sitting around listening for events to occur – reducing the cost (and Amazon’s revenue) for event-driven systems by a factor of 5 to 10 (!).