Serverless under the hood

Function-as-a-Service serverless cloud offerings are advertised as the way to build event-driven applications in days or hours, and then scale them up to millions of users — all for several dollars a month.

But how does that work in today's cloud? What do we know about the internals of AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions? Is scalability a solved problem? What exactly is a GB-second that we are paying for?

Join Mikhail as he pulls back the buzzword curtain to journey into the depths of how serverless works, what's common and what's different across cloud providers, and why you should care.