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With my car dealer, I maintain exactly zero factories. Zero physical factories. Zero factory workers. It's perfectly reasonable IMO for that to be called "fact
by partycoder 10y ago
With my car dealer, I maintain exactly zero factories. Zero physical factories. Zero factory workers.
It's perfectly reasonable IMO for that to be called "factory-less car".
- ec109685 10y agoIf originally you had to precure time at a factory to produce your car and now you can go to a dealer and buy a car, I would call that new way factory-less — the factory has been taken out of your personal car buying equation.
- partycoder 10y agoSo I am not paying for the factory infrastructure, workers, etc. when I buy my car? wow! that's great. We've came a long way with these factory-less cars!
- res0nat0r 10y agoWhy is everyone here so upset about the word "serverless"? It's exactly what it says: You aren't responsible for maintaining any OS or server. That's it.
- Can_Not 10y agoWe are upset because we're being told that it is serverless, then there are clearly servers anyways.
- res0nat0r 10y agoNo need to dig into the weeds or wax poetic on the term, people call it serverless because you, the user, don't have to manage any servers personally when you use the "serverless" application. It sounds like the dislike comes from folks here who just want to be contrary is all.
- Can_Not 10y agoSo by that definition, facebook, linode, shared webhosts, GCE, etc.. are serverless. AirBnB is homeless. Uber is automobileless. Ok, maybe I'm not being contrarian, maybe I just like semantically useful and intuitive technical terms instead of blatantly wrong and misleading ones? Maybe the problem is that I care about my field of expertise and don't want it to be further watered down by the perpetual sloppiness of "who cares, it's just a name"?
- res0nat0r 10y agoI feel like I'm repeating myself, but serverless means you don't care about servers when running your code At all. That's it. Your examples above don't fit into that at all, so they aren't really applicable. You submit your job, function, whatever and it...just runs. You don't have to worry about servers, hence the name. Not sure why everyone feels like arguing over a simple concept, but alas.
- Can_Not 10y ago> but serverless means you don't care about servers when running your code At all We already have semantically useful terms/naming conventions for that. Shared Host, Cloud hosted, $LAYER-as-a-Service, etc.. No need to use a blatantly misleading term instead.