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"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."
by 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 agoI 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 agoYeah. See https://www.sqlite.org/serverless.html https://www.sqlite.org/serverless.html