Why Serverless?
The serverless model is growing day by day and being accepted by businesses of all kinds for multiple reasons, such as:
- No server management: Management of any kind of physical hardware or server software is eliminated, so developers can focus on the code, and thereby, on the actual product. Users don’t need to worry about any security updates and backups as it is the responsibility of the vendor to manage the server.
- Pay for what you use: The serverless model charges users based on resource consumption. The users pay only for the computing resources that the model uses. In other words, they don’t pay for a dedicated server infrastructure.
- Simpler development process: With the elimination of all the major management tasks and overhead, the development process of the application can significantly improve and will eventually benefit the developers and the application owners.
What is a Serverless Database?
Technology keeps on advancing at a rapid pace, aiming to find solutions to problems and complete the work more efficiently. Problems arise in every sector, and the Department of Database Management and Deployment is no stranger. To build and deploy applications, developers needed some kind of hardware to deal with the database, whether it was the processing of it or the storage. It required a lot of operational management and hence, consumed a lot of precious time, not to mention the increase in costs of using traditional database systems.
A solution was needed, and it did arrive in the form of a serverless database. Now, the developers can create clusters in the minimum amount of time without taking over the management tasks of the database. But that is just a tiny task that a serverless database can perform. In this article, we will discuss the concept of serverless and a serverless database, its characteristics, why serverless is needed in the first place, some examples of a serverless database, and its advantages and disadvantages.
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