4 Serverless Architectures Used In Popular Apps

And how they are used to scale for a massive number of daily users

Uriel Bitton
The Serverless Spotlight

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Serverless computing has revolutionized backend development.

Large and small organizations and development teams have begun adopting serverless.

Serverless services allow developers to focus more on the code and deploying it quickly.

Serverless eliminates the complex tasks of maintaining and patching servers and infrastructure.

From Netflix, to Airbnb and Amazon, numerous popular companies have begun adopting it for various uses.

These serverless services help them simplify many daily tasks and many swear by it.

In this article, let’s explore some popular use cases of companies using serverless to supercharge their workloads.

Netflix — Event-Driven Architecture

Netflix’s video encoding serverless architecture

Netflix’s architecture is built around an event-driven model.

Events trigger functions that execute specific tasks like video encoding and content recommendation.

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Uriel Bitton
The Serverless Spotlight

I write about AWS services, serverless technology, cloud computing, and cost-efficiency and help you learn how to easily build robust web apps.