Insects

Keeping in line with the animal theme, Eric Johnson wrote a blog post for RackSpace which introduced insects. This term was introduced to describe serverless and Functions as a Service.

Insects have a much lower life expectancy than chickens; in fact, some insects only have a lifespan of a few hours. This fits in with serverless and Functions as a Service as these have a lifespan of seconds.

Later in this chapter, we will be looking at public cloud services from AWS and Microsoft Azure which are billed in milliseconds, rather than hours or minutes.

Eric's blog post can be found at https://blog.rackspace.com/pets-cattle-and-nowinsects/.