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Cloud computing, which started with Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), is fast moving into a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) model where users don't have to think about servers. Serverless applications don't require the provisioning, scaling, or management of servers, as everything required to run and scale the applications with high availability is provided by the platform itself.
SAVE Although some believe Java is dying, developments such as the upcoming release of Java 9 and the strength of the Java community tell another story. New JVM-based languages like Kotlin and exciting changes in Java 9 such as Project Jigsaw, Streams API improvements, and JShell prove a bright future ahead. The 2017 Guide to Java explores upcoming features of Java 9, how to make your apps backwards-compatible, a look into whether Microservices are right for you, and using the Futures API in Java.
This is a real story. One that is still unfolding.. Within a week we accumulated a bill close to $10K due to a programming error. I am writing this to help someone else be better prepared and to avoid the dangers, that could run up bills of several thousands of dollars. We started SLAppForge a few months back, to build high productivity Development Tools for Serverless computing.
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