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Does it matter whether something is new or not? The fact is there are services such as AWS lambda that people are using and talking about, so we need terminolog
by justinhj 10y ago
Does it matter whether something is new or not? The fact is there are services such as AWS lambda that people are using and talking about, so we need terminology for that.
- bitwize 10y agoNot really, as long as it's useful. But call it what it is -- hosted services. Don't make up a new, nonsensical name.
- justinhj 10y agoHosted services doesn't really differentiate what they are. DynamoDB is a hosted service. So is EC2 and ECS.
- bitwize 10y agoThen call it function hosting or business-logic hosting. "Serverless" means "there is no server" which is demonstrably false. Or should I assume that words don't mean things?
- collyw 10y agoI think it does matter in a lot of circumstances. Take NoSQL which was hyped as something new 5 or 6 years back. Because of that everyone under a certain age decided that they had to use it. The older more cynical of us realized that this was how people has been writing software before SQL came along, and realized we were throwing out a whole host of features and benefits because this was the "new" way of doing things.