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	Podcast:		voiceofthedba's podcast
	Episode:		Serverless Databases
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:03:18
	Publish Date:		2019-05-15 17:00:00
	Description:		I wrote about serverless applications recently. Not a lot of people are using serverless technology for their code, but a few have had a lot of success. It seems like a move that makes sense, though there are some challenges in managing the code when you deploy functions or snippets instead of an entire codebase. I worry a bit about tracking billing, usage, versions, and deployment pipelines with serverless, but I know things will get better over time. Now Microsoft Azure has included a new option for databases: Azure SQL DB Serverless. This is a SQL Server database that bills you for the compute cycles used by the second. This works by essentially pausing your use of the database processing when clients are not accessing the system. You are still billed for storage all of the time, which makes sense, but storage is cheap. The system also has quite a few automatic scaling features, many of which aren't as simple to understand as I might hope. Read the rest of Serverless Databases
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