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"Serverless" is a marketing term invented by Amazon for what might in retrospect have been better described as mini-PaaS. It doesn't literally mean "without se
by jacques_chester 9y ago
"Serverless" is a marketing term invented by Amazon for what might in retrospect have been better described as mini-PaaS.
It doesn't literally mean "without servers". It means that the developer doesn't care about them. AWS have energetically pushed the line that in The One True and Holy Definition of Serverless operators don't care either.
Which, gee whiz, what a coincidence, distinguishes Lambda from opensource projects like this.
Disclosure: I work on a FaaS, Project Riff, for Pivotal. So I guess we're kinda competing with AWS? -ish?
- zokier 9y ago> "Serverless" is a marketing term invented by Amazon for what might in retrospect have been better described as mini-PaaS. Almost. Imho "serverless" describes more the architecture of applications, in contrast to "mini-PaaS" which would then describe the platform on which such applications are deployed.
- jacques_chester 9y agoWhat about the architecture is different, in your view?
- CharlesW 9y ago> "Serverless" is a marketing term invented by Amazon for what might in retrospect have been better described as mini-PaaS. Popularized by, but not invented by: http://readwrite.com/2012/10/15/why-the-future-of-software-and-apps-is-serverless/ http://readwrite.com/2012/10/15/why-the-future-of-software-a...