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Your 'wireless' analogy is the most convincing explanation I've heard for the term yet. When I was struggling with accepting 'serverless' as a legitimate name f
by niftich 10y ago
Your 'wireless' analogy is the most convincing explanation I've heard for the term yet. When I was struggling with accepting 'serverless' as a legitimate name for Function-calls-as-a-Service, I reminded myself that there's no server to SFTP or SSH into to muck about on its filesystem.
- kowdermeister 10y agoWireless is a wrong analogy. Wireless refers to the lack of cables _between_ my device and the router. "Serverless" things however are part of the same infrastructure that serve other web services. They are sitting on servers. Computers which has a CPU to execute the functions. We call them servers, therefore serverless is meaningless term. > there's no server to SFTP or SSH into There is, but you are not allowed in.