Serverless architecture is another leap:“ We’ ll no longer be running on servers or VMs,” he added.“ It’ ll be little services in the cloud, independent of each other but working together. That agility is a major cost and efficiency win.”“ Cloud services used to be about hosting virtual machines,” Farabaugh said.“ Now we’ re talking about web services, gateway APIs, and microservices that spin up and down as needed. We’ re becoming more agile and cost-effective.” Finally, sustainability will be a growing influence. Renewable energy will help make overall cloud resource usage cheaper and less impactful to the environment, according to Roth.“ We’ ll see more processing done on the vehicle itself,” he said.
“ That reduces latency and bandwidth needs and lets us do more, faster.” From rural towns to major metropolitan areas, cloud solutions empower transit leaders to spend less time troubleshooting, and more time delivering safe, efficient service to their ridership“ Whether you have a five-bus fleet or a 500-bus fleet,” Farabaugh said,“ our solution scales. And our goal is to help agencies better serve their communities.”“ Previously, we would have to VPN into each customer and individually apply updates,” added John Roth, Staff Engineer at Avail.“ Now our support department can handle everyone all at once. We get updates out far quicker than previously possible.”
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