Building Event-Driven Microservices - Chapter 9 - Microservices Using Function as a Service

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is an area of cloud computing that is growing rapidly.

There are following issues to conside here:

• Principles of FaaS
• Open source and 3rd party FaaS providers
• 4 components to consider when building microservices as functions
• Cold Start vs Warm Start
• Different Triggers that can start FaaS: Triggering Based on New Events, Triggering Based on Consumer Group Lag, Triggering on a Schedule, Triggering Using Webhooks, Triggering on Resource Events
• Maintaining State
• Two patterns of functions calling other functions: Event-driven and Direct-call
• Termination and Shutdown
• Tuning and Scaling

All of these is disclosed in the Chapter 9 of the book we are currently studying:

“Building Event-Driven Microservices: Leveraging Organizational Data at Scale” by Adam Bellemare

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