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It's hardly surprising the phrasing is a big WTF - the term "serverless" is the most ridiculous thing since rented virtual servers suddenly become "the cloud".

It's hardly surprising the phrasing is a big WTF - the term "serverless" is the most ridiculous thing since rented virtual servers suddenly become "the cloud". You may as well make a bacon pizza and say "vegetarian" and when someone questions it, just say "well you didnt personally kill the pig, so it's not really from an animal"

TheAceOfHearts 8y ago
I'm also not a big fan of the term "serverless" within this context either, however I don't think it's entirely fair to blame the Zeit team for following along with the rest of the industry. All the big tech companies use the term, which forces smaller players that wish to compete in the same space to use it as well.
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unityByFreedom 8y ago
> the term "serverless" is the most ridiculous thing since rented virtual servers suddenly become "the cloud". hah! I'm so happy to see someone say this. I've been thinking the same for awhile and did not know how to articulate it.
guru4consulting 8y ago
do you feel the same when you hear "wireless internet", "WiFi", "cordless mic", "wireless phone"? in that context, 'serverless' sounds okay to me.
- stephenr 8y ago
  No because wifi is a local network standard that, wait for it, works without wires. Serverless very literally involves a server
  - erikpukinskis 8y ago
    Your router has a wire too. Probably two.
Nafesy1 8y ago
Both terms have a deeper meaning which is seemingly lost on pedants like yourself. Is a rented vm in a warehouse on a remote industrial estate a hyper-scale data centre with dedicated fibre etc.? No. Is a web host which lets you manually add more hosts into a load balancer and bill you for each additional host a self-scaling, micro billed (aka serverless) solution? No. But you know that already.
Nafesy1 8y ago
Both terms have a deeper meaning which is seemingly lost on pedants like yourself. Is a rented vm in a warehouse on a remote industrial estate a managed data centre with dedicated fibre etc.? No. Is a web host which lets you manually add more hosts into a load balancer and bill you for each additional host a self-scaling, micro billed (aka serverless) solution? No. But you know that already.

TheAceOfHearts 8y ago

I'm also not a big fan of the term "serverless" within this context either, however I don't think it's entirely fair to blame the Zeit team for following along with the rest of the industry. All the big tech companies use the term, which forces smaller players that wish to compete in the same space to use it as well.

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unityByFreedom 8y ago

> the term "serverless" is the most ridiculous thing since rented virtual servers suddenly become "the cloud". hah! I'm so happy to see someone say this. I've been thinking the same for awhile and did not know how to articulate it.

guru4consulting 8y ago

do you feel the same when you hear "wireless internet", "WiFi", "cordless mic", "wireless phone"? in that context, 'serverless' sounds okay to me.

stephenr 8y ago
No because wifi is a local network standard that, wait for it, works without wires. Serverless very literally involves a server
- erikpukinskis 8y ago
  Your router has a wire too. Probably two.

Nafesy1 8y ago

Both terms have a deeper meaning which is seemingly lost on pedants like yourself. Is a rented vm in a warehouse on a remote industrial estate a hyper-scale data centre with dedicated fibre etc.? No. Is a web host which lets you manually add more hosts into a load balancer and bill you for each additional host a self-scaling, micro billed (aka serverless) solution? No. But you know that already.

Nafesy1 8y ago

Both terms have a deeper meaning which is seemingly lost on pedants like yourself. Is a rented vm in a warehouse on a remote industrial estate a managed data centre with dedicated fibre etc.? No. Is a web host which lets you manually add more hosts into a load balancer and bill you for each additional host a self-scaling, micro billed (aka serverless) solution? No. But you know that already.