Alex DeBrie and Khawaja Shams dive deep into serverless, caching, and the hardest problems in distributed systems.
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In this episode of the Software Daily podcast, host Alex DeBrie talks with Momento Co-Founder and CEO Khawaja Shams about the true meaning of serverless and how Momento upholds that definition. Tune in for discussion on the following and much more:
• Pain of current caching solutions like Redis and Memcached
• How Momento Serverless Cache relieves that pain
• Benefits and challenges of multi-tenant systems
• Importance of operational rigor and metrics
Serverless means that you can access it via API call, so for us, it’s literally as simple as createCache() and you pass in one parameter which is the name of the cache. That’s it. Behind the scenes, all of the multi-availability zones, the encryption end-to-end, encryption at rest—all of that capacity management gets blended and abstracted away... The pricing model is also completely serverless, which means that it scales down to zero when you’re not using it and you don’t owe anything. In fact, your first 50GB are free. The rest of it is just data transfer... You just pay $0.15 per gig in and $0.15 per gig out. It’s one dimension, one price, and everything else is just kind of taken care of on your behalf.
Mo is, first and foremost, adorable. Second, Mo is a squirrel. The only things Mo loves more than acorns are customers—it’s why Momento decided to make them the official Momento mascot. Mo is not sure how they feel about the responsibility, but they definitely love customers. And acorns. So they keep doing the job.
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