> Is This a New Idea? I haven't seen it noted in the discussion below but there's an earlier incarnation of the so-called serverless architecture. Early mainf

> Is This a New Idea? I haven't seen it noted in the discussion below but there's an earlier incarnation of the so-called serverless architecture. Early mainframes could be leased outright or you could buy time on them, in some cases on an ad-hoc basis for one-time batch workloads.