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I don't understand the term or brand "serverless", to me it seems it's still using a server, meaning a fast computer somewhere running 24/7 in a datacenter. To

• mytailorisrich 7y ago
  Of course there's still a server. What it means is that you don't have to worry about it.
  • tudorw 7y ago
    Instead, you worry about the provider, and when their worries become your worries you hope you're significant enough to warrant worrying about...
• AndrewDucker 7y ago
  "Serverless" is "I don't have to provision a server, or worry about where it is, or maintain it, or what OS it's running, or any of the other fiddly details." You define a function, you hand that function to a company, and they make sure it runs when certain conditions are met. You then don't have to worry about the server.
  • filleduchaos 7y ago
    I think the problem is that these terms had meanings before the last five or so years. There are setups that are actually accurately describable as "serverless" - for example, SQLite is called a "serverless database" because it's an embeddable library that just operates off a file as opposed to client-server DBs like Postgres or MySQL.
    • SQLite 7y ago
      Yeah. See https://www.sqlite.org/serverless.html https://www.sqlite.org/serverless.html
• abiro 7y ago
  Think of serverless as “framework-as-a-service”. Edit: why the downvote? From infrastructure, through platform, serverless is the natural evolution of the cloud to framework-as-a-service.
• tiborsaas 7y ago
  It's a misnomer, but the underlying idea has lots of valid uses.