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Discussion on: State of serverless computing - an open discussion

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Ben Halpern

It seems like the competition in the cloud is getting very intense. With Amazon, Google, Microsoft and IBM, plus plenty of smaller players, all investing heavily, we should see a lot of fast progress in serverless.

Everything from AWS Re:Invent was pretty exciting for the space. It will be fun to see what comes next.

I'm also curious whether any of the other tech giants have plans on getting into this space at all. If serverless is truly going to be a big deal on its own, somebody could leapfrog the whole cloud services offering and jump straight into cloud functions. I'm not sure it's going to be that big a thing as a standalone product, but you never know.

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Dan Fockler

I think you might see more and more of this type of serverless backed APIs. They are so easy to scale and deploy. I can see a lot of it wrapping CPU bound tasks that people want offloaded in the background.