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Date Published
Author
Nikhil Chandrappa
Word count
1853
Language
English
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Summary

Serverless applications are gaining popularity as workloads move to the cloud, allowing developers to run code without provisioning or managing servers. These frameworks provide elastic scaling and cost benefits by only billing for compute time consumed. Serverless architectures are characterized by statelessness, scalability based on workload demands, event-driven architecture, and cloud platform handling application lifecycle. To support these characteristics, distributed SQL databases like YugabyteDB are becoming popular with enterprises looking to deploy new applications to the cloud and modernize existing ones. YugabyteDB is a cloud-native database that provides strongly consistent replication, distributed ACID transactions, and linearly scales by adding new nodes to the cluster. It offers a PostgreSQL wire-compatible YSQL API for accessing data from Lambda applications. When choosing a database for serverless applications, developers need to consider factors such as data source connection model, infrastructure as code, and data model and access patterns. By selecting a suitable database like YugabyteDB, developers can realize the elastic scalability of serverless applications while ensuring the performance and reliability of their applications.