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> Using a Taxi or a furniture moving company does not require you to own a car. That's the point of those services. But nobody describes those things as "no-car
by IanCal 5y ago
> Using a Taxi or a furniture moving company does not require you to own a car. That's the point of those services. But nobody describes those things as "no-car".
If you said "I'm carless" and I disagreed because you'd moved house or used a taxi, you'd think I was being a little odd.
These terms make much more sense to me because they describe what I care about. You pay someone to get you from A to B. They do so in a car, but it wouldn't matter if you sat in the same seat with the same experience but was on a bus, or the car-shaped box you were in was actually sitting on a train moving you along. That's a detail you don't care about.
I want to run code. I don't care if it's my server, a shared one, it moves from server to server or starts and stops on demand. I don't care about the server. I don't want to care about the server part.
I get the annoyance, but I think they're useful.
- 1337shadow 5y agoSo if I'm renting a dedicated server just like I'd be renting a taxi, am I also "serverless"?
- piaste 5y agoRenting a dedicated server is more like leasing a car. You directly manage the car and care very much about its condition.
- matharmin 5y agoA closer analogy would be renting a car. And if you rent a car full-time, you can't really call yourself car-less. In both cases there is a lot of grey areas, but the general concept is the same: If you don't own, maintain or operate (drive) a server/car, you can call yourself server/car-less, regardless of whether a server or car is still being used.
- jbergens 5y agoGreat response! I will steal this and turn it around the next time some non-technical person asks me about serverless and such stuff. I will compare it to owning a car, using a taxi and maybe leasing a car or using a car-fleet.
- IanCal 5y agoYou're renting it for a few minutes at a time while not caring what it is other than "at least a generic sort of car" or whether it's the same one each time? Sure. You're renting it long term? That's like leasing a very specific car, so no not really.