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So....., someone else's server?

asaddhamani 8y ago
No, its "serverless"!
joombaga 8y ago
That's correct. "serverless" does not mean "does not run on a server". It means the cloud provider handles server allocation. It's a misnomer.
cddotdotslash 8y ago
Yes, the exact same snarky comment that comes up every time someone brings up the word "serverless." Anyone who is using this code base is probably smart enough to connect the dots that yes, the code is running on some server some where.
- tyingq 8y ago
  When it was first came to my attention, I assumed it meant "peer to peer" or "all code runs locally". I don't feel like that's because I wasn't smart enough. It is a fairly silly name.
dsr_ 8y ago
Right. Whoever uses the term "serverless" without irony can't be trusted with any decision about security, privacy or performance. It's the current "web scale".
- sl1ck731 8y ago
  I don't understand the hate. You know what it means and are just being a jackass. Anyone who knows what it is knows there is a server somewhere being managed. It has a valid purpose and for all intents and purposes you as a user have no interaction with server level details and are delegating all of those details to some service provider. So from a user point of view, it is "serverless".
  - dsr_ 8y ago
    In a profession which depends on knowing the meanings of words and symbols and using them exactly correctly, naming a software deployment model as a thing that it is not is fundamentally wrong. Why is it wrong? Because everything depends on you having a model in your head of how the universe works. When you persistently misname something in a way contrary to reality, it becomes part of your model. "It's serverless, therefore I don't have to think about servers in any way." From a user's point of view, everything is magic. That doesn't justify calling software magic.
    - sl1ck731 8y ago
      Does Docker or Centos or Beanstalk or Kibana mean anything? No, they're just symbols. It's just a name and you have to know what it means. Everything in tech has some stupid name. You're not missing any part of using serverless by not caring about servers. You have platform constraints to minimize.
gsich 8y ago
self-hosted serverless?
rangerpolitic 8y ago
It reminds me of self-plagiarism.

No, its "serverless"!

That's correct. "serverless" does not mean "does not run on a server". It means the cloud provider handles server allocation. It's a misnomer.

cddotdotslash 8y ago

Yes, the exact same snarky comment that comes up every time someone brings up the word "serverless." Anyone who is using this code base is probably smart enough to connect the dots that yes, the code is running on some server some where.

tyingq 8y ago
When it was first came to my attention, I assumed it meant "peer to peer" or "all code runs locally". I don't feel like that's because I wasn't smart enough. It is a fairly silly name.

dsr_ 8y ago

Right. Whoever uses the term "serverless" without irony can't be trusted with any decision about security, privacy or performance. It's the current "web scale".

sl1ck731 8y ago
I don't understand the hate. You know what it means and are just being a jackass. Anyone who knows what it is knows there is a server somewhere being managed. It has a valid purpose and for all intents and purposes you as a user have no interaction with server level details and are delegating all of those details to some service provider. So from a user point of view, it is "serverless".
- dsr_ 8y ago
  In a profession which depends on knowing the meanings of words and symbols and using them exactly correctly, naming a software deployment model as a thing that it is not is fundamentally wrong. Why is it wrong? Because everything depends on you having a model in your head of how the universe works. When you persistently misname something in a way contrary to reality, it becomes part of your model. "It's serverless, therefore I don't have to think about servers in any way." From a user's point of view, everything is magic. That doesn't justify calling software magic.
  - sl1ck731 8y ago
    Does Docker or Centos or Beanstalk or Kibana mean anything? No, they're just symbols. It's just a name and you have to know what it means. Everything in tech has some stupid name. You're not missing any part of using serverless by not caring about servers. You have platform constraints to minimize.

gsich 8y ago

self-hosted serverless?

rangerpolitic 8y ago

It reminds me of self-plagiarism.