Cloud App Dev II (Serverless)

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Traditionally companies have built and deployed web applications where they have some degree of control typically running on a server and are responsible for provisioning and managing the resources for it. There are a few issues with this be it server uptime, maintenance costs, managing security, and scalability. It is far more competitive now to run applications on the cloud. Serverless computing (or serverless for short), is an execution model where the cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) is responsible for executing a piece of code by dynamically allocating the resources. And only charging for the amount of resources used to run the code. The code that is sent to the cloud provider for execution is usually in the form of a function. Hence serverless is sometimes referred to as “Functions as a Service” or “FaaS”. This hands-on course is meant for developers that would like to build full-stack serverless applications. By guiding students step-by-step through both the frontend and the backend they will cover all the different aspects of building their first full automated full-stack serverless React app on the cloud.