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These were already the promises of "the Cloud" until everyone started calling their Raspberry Pis at home a "cloud". Now the same thing has got another stupid
by virtualized 9y ago
These were already the promises of "the Cloud" until everyone started calling their Raspberry Pis at home a "cloud".
Now the same thing has got another stupid name: Serverless. I wonder what the same stuff will be called two years from now.
- collyw 9y agoIt was "web based" before that.
- melvinram 9y agoYes, services (such as AWS S3) that could be considered serverless have existed for some time now. What has changed is that the suite of services now exist to fully enable an application to be (almost) completely serverless. Similar to micro-services, people will overuse the word and it will seem like a fad. IMO, it's more than a fad. Once the toolchain is mature, it will become the default way of building applications.
- ShabbosGoy 9y agoS3 is not serverless. Just because the implementation details (i.e. how servers are provisioned) are obscured from the end user doesn't make serverless. Web 3.0 is truly serverless because your application lives on a decentralized p2p cloud. Ethereum/Swarm(or IPFS)/Whisper is an example of a serverless p2p stack. You may as well call the service they're selling "managed", because that's what it is.
- melvinram 9y agoThat's not how the term serverless is being used most places. See first comment I made. It's not being without server. It's about not thinking about the server.
- TuringTest 9y agoThat doesn't make the name any less stupid. It's exactly like calling automatic cars "gearless" because you don't need to manually change gears.