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How is it a "serverless framework"? I understand that phrase to mean things like Amazon Lambda where a large company executes small processes for you and you do
by geofft 8y ago
How is it a "serverless framework"? I understand that phrase to mean things like Amazon Lambda where a large company executes small processes for you and you don't have to manage servers. Isn't Urbit the opposite, that you have to manage a (quite involved) server, and that's a good thing?
- nyolfen 8y agothe idea is that you eventually don't have to manage it once it's a mature system, but it's early days and currently a pretty involved process. serverless is also probably the wrong term since the usual description is 'personal server.'
- yebyen 8y agoServerless is pretty overloaded at this point, there are serverless frameworks that require first you must get a cluster of Kubernetes nodes. They're still serverless, by plenty of definitions that I find credible. They don't require a persistent server process per application or per endpoint. I'm talking about Knative Serving namely, but really any framework that stands up infrastructure in front of you as you request it, and tears it down behind you as you've momentarily finished with using it, I would consider definitely meets the most common definition of serverless. That being said, Urbit as a Serverless framework, I think is a pretty big stretch.