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I want to punch a drywall each time when I read "serverless".

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• e-clinton 4y ago
  I felt the same with “big data” 5 years ago
• crabmusket 4y ago
  It should have been "sysadminless", which is equally accurate (sysadmins still exist) but truer to the purpose of these technologies.
  • cestith 4y ago
    "Self service" has been right there for ages as a recognized term. We have automats, laundromats (or washaterias regionally), buffets, vending machines, self-service gasoline, photo printing kiosks, and so on.
• quickthrower2 4y ago
  It isn’t just a buzzword though. I take it to mean “sys admin handled for you” but there is a spectrum. Clearly with this if you self host it is serverful again to some extent. Serverless means not dealing with user accounts, operating systems, opening ports, nginx, updates etc.
  • system2 4y ago
    AKA managed.
    • quickthrower2 4y ago
      The PHP based “CPanel” of the early 2000s is of course also serverless!
• kitd 4y ago
  "Serverless" has a pretty widely-accepted meaning now, as mentioned in other replies. You provide the application code, the platform provides the runtime environment, OS and interfaces. You should probably move on.
  • m0llusk 4y ago
    Just like "postmodern": Once a core of people embrace the term, the fact that it is contradictory and meaningless loses importance. In a way it is an upgrade from naming every phenomenon for the person most closely associated with it.
• cpcallen 4y ago
  Yes, agreed. To me "serverless" means that the application is entirely client-side, running in a browser without depending on any backend except whatever httpd originally sent you the .html, .css and .js files. Anything else has servers, and calling it "serverless" is stupid.
  • perilunar 4y ago
    If it serves files it’s a fucking server, even if it’s just serving static HTML, CSS, and JS files.