Today's guest is Leon Stigter, Principal Product Manager for Akka Serverless. We discuss the origins and promises of serverless, some of the limitations of stateless functions for serverless, why data-centric serverless applications need more data access patterns to get the job done, how Akka Serverless democratizes access to the features and patterns developers need to be successful, and more.

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