---
id: 6636263059a6703a80ee06aa
title: "Dialogue 2: Discussing Serverless Computing"
challengeType: 21
dashedName: dialogue-2-discussing-serverless-computing
lang: en-US
---

# --description--

Watch the video to understand the context of the upcoming lessons.

# --assignment--

Watch the video

# --scene--

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