Cloud technologies

Also known as "running your code on someone else's computer", cloud computing has extended well beyond server hosting and content caching. As cloud technologies mature, more sophisticated workloads are delivered including just in time functions, full API microservices, complex data processing pipelines and increasingly, AI tasks.

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