"Serverless" is one of those names that kinda-sorta-almost makes sense: It's that your code runs "on no server (in particular)" rather than "on no server (at al

"Serverless" is one of those names that kinda-sorta-almost makes sense: It's that your code runs "on no server (in particular)" rather than "on no server (at all)". Someone stripped off that nuance in trying to come up with a concise buzzphrase for code that expects ephemeral access to an arbitrary server.