To answer the title: what we called FaaS back in the day. And back in those days, the suspender-wearing UNIX sysadmins said that it was just a more restricted v

To answer the title: what we called FaaS back in the day. And back in those days, the suspender-wearing UNIX sysadmins said that it was just a more restricted version of inetd. Wonder what the next generation will call it? And yes, I am being sarcastic. There are differences. But do recall that when AWS Lambda came out, it had the exact same limitations w.r.t. one process per call, needing one fresh connection to a DB per request to handle, etc.