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Serverless computing seems to just be reinventing hosted CGI. Is this not just a trade of Perl and php for Python and JavaScript?
by robmccoll 10y ago
Serverless computing seems to just be reinventing hosted CGI. Is this not just a trade of Perl and php for Python and JavaScript?
- e12e 10y agoI think one could engineer CGI to get many of the same benefits - I'm not entirely sure most people did. First, you'd want to run each process in a separate jail, as a separate user - and yet be able to (easily) use fifo's or pipes (possibly sockets) to pipe data through. At that point, you're already a bit from ephemeral data in /tmp and your typical php/perl/cgi setup. But I think you're right in that it borrows some of the good ideas from CGI (chief among them simplicity, assuming that you were doing stateless stuff).