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It's not just marketers. The vast majority of engineers are just fine with this term. The set of people complaining about it are a tiny minority. I'm the lead
by kentonv 6y ago
It's not just marketers. The vast majority of engineers are just fine with this term. The set of people complaining about it are a tiny minority.
I'm the lead engineer on Cloudflare Workers. We didn't originally call it "serverless", but after talking to lots of engineers who said "Oh so it's serverless?" we decided to go with that term. The decision was not made by marketers.
- pdimitar 6y agoSo network effects. And the other engineers already bought the marketing term and are implicitly pressuring you into using it. Ouch.
- kentonv 6y agoThere's nothing "ouch" about it. People understand a term to mean a thing, we are doing that thing, we adopt the same term, now everyone understands what we're doing. Communication is good.
- pdimitar 6y agoWell, I agree on that. But I do get sad sometimes about how easily influenced the people at large are.