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Serverless is just a new word for single-serving computation. Everywhere I travel, tiny life. Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single pat of butter.
by test6554 8y ago
Serverless is just a new word for single-serving computation.
Everywhere I travel, tiny life. Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single pat of butter. The microwave Cordon Bleu hobby kit. Shampoo-conditioner combos, sample-packaged mouthwash, tiny bars of soap. The people I meet on each flight? They're single-serving friends.
~ Fight Club
It's the gig economy for servers. Rather than a server having a stable comfortable job, it must get one piece of work at a time and only gets reimbursed for services performed, not for its availability.
- int0x80 8y agoNicely put.
- ckluis 8y agoYou could say, "Uber for Servers" - very apt description you gave it.
- zerostar07 8y agoWhich calls for an "Airbnb for servers", which will allow anyone to rent their phone for gigs in the server gig economy (at least until the servers unionize)
- TACIXAT 8y agoBotnet operators were so ahead of their time.
- wastedhours 8y agoThe current storyline of Silicon Valley I believe.
- Izkata 8y agoI used to run SETI@home [0] on my computer back in the early 2000s. Made for an interesting screensaver whenever friends were over. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home
- gowld 8y agoFlexCar for Servers.
- bsbechtel 8y agoYes, at 5x the hourly rate of a full-time server.
- giggles_giggles 8y agoSo it's consulting for servers
- Touche 8y agoBut you're not paying the server to browse Reddit.
- throwaway2048 8y ago5x? where did you get such a bargin
- verelo 8y agoIn my mind, it's somewhere between shared hosting and having your own virtualized environment like an EC2 instances.