Big Data Insights May 6, 2019

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Prepare for serverless computing

When AWS Lambda launched, it came with an interesting concept: enterprises would buy business functions and the compute, storage and networking tasks would be managed in the background. What returns does serverless computing deliver for the enterprise, and which vendors deliver the best options?