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Nobody called them serverless DBs, and nobody does. There is a vocal minority of reductionists here on HN who dismiss the accepted definition of serverless bec
by cle 7y ago
Nobody called them serverless DBs, and nobody does.
There is a vocal minority of reductionists here on HN who dismiss the accepted definition of serverless because the literal meaning doesn’t make sense. It’s just noise though. “Serverless” does have a specific meaning and it’s not “there are no servers anywhere”.
I was around when there was no serverless. Things change, new words arise. Time for us to get with the times.
- quasarj 7y agonah
- tonyarkles 7y ago> I was around when there was no serverless. We used to call it /cgi-bin/ ;)
- int_19h 7y agoI remember Firebird called "serverless" sometime around 2006, in the same meaning that SQLite uses. It was pretty common terminology for RDBMS.