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Every time you use the term "serverless", a small, innocent puppy dies. At least "the cloud" didn't mean anything. This is worse, because it's misleading. Ther
by peterkelly 8y ago
Every time you use the term "serverless", a small, innocent puppy dies.
At least "the cloud" didn't mean anything. This is worse, because it's misleading. There's a server involved and you know it. Anyone who hears it for the first time initially thinks it means "oh, so there's no server involved, it either runs on the user's local machine or uses a peer-to-peer infrastructure".
Then you have to google around and find out that it actually refers to the notion of having someone else maintain the server for you, just as was the case for CGI scripts on shared web hosts people were writing 20 years ago. Only once you realise this does it start to make sense.
- sprobertson 8y agoWell since you want to be pedantic about it, if you serve your app from a local machine or a machine in a peer network, you've still got a server.
- moduspol 8y agoI think the horse is out of the barn at this point. It may not be perfect, but we don't have a better term yet so this seems to be it.
- nlawalker 8y agoIt's like wireless. There are most definitely wires, they're just not yours, and you don't have to worry about them.
- mmt 8y agoThat's a weak analogy, since the vast majority of products that are called "wireless" really are substituting, with radio (or optical), for products that would otherwise use wires.