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"Serverless" is a silly name because there are of course still servers. Peer-to-peer architectures could perhaps charitably be called "serverless", but I digre
by na85 9y ago
"Serverless" is a silly name because there are of course still servers. Peer-to-peer architectures could perhaps charitably be called "serverless", but I digress.
To me it sounds like this whole "serverless revolution" is just the product of Amazon's PR team who found a nice term to befuddle and bedazzle know-nothing CEOs.
- ceejayoz 9y agoLook, at some point, my "wireless" internet involves wires, but I don't really have to worry about managing them, so it's wireless in the ways that matter to me.
- na85 9y agoThat's a fair point, but wireless internet is a different mode of delivery to your house, whereas "serverless" is just adding a layer of abstraction, and I don't really think that these things are analogous.
- drb91 9y agoWell, you’re also completely ignoring many tradeoffs. For instance, it is cheaper to use 10k concurrent lambda invocations than it is to spin up the equivalent ec2 instances. There’s also the dev time allocated to maintainint the server infrastructure itself. Serverless may be a disingenuous term, but it does refer to a useful thing.
- taneq 9y agoYep. The great marvelous internet fad reinvention machine has just managed to find a new name for "web hosting".
- rmrfrmrf 9y ago“And in other news, the ops team is deferring Debian 8 upgrades until Q3”
- ams6110 9y agoI agree. "Cloud Functions" or "FaaS" (Functions as a Service) or something along those lines would be a better and more descriptive name.