Exercise

Let's do some revision by trying to answer the questions without reviewing the contents:

1. How long is the time limitation for an AWS Lambda?
2. Why do you think the cloud providers limit computational time for FaaS functions?
3. What are Azure's durable functions? Do they have any benefit?
4. How can we test an AWS Lambda program just with Docker?
5. What's the engine behind IBM Cloud Functions? What do you think is the reason behind IBM open sourcing it?
6. What is the Serverless Framework? Why is it important?
7. How could we make a FaaS function work across cloud providers? Do you think it is really possible?
8. Please explain the difference between stateless and share-nothing models.