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Sorry but this is just buzzword bingo. Why not call it cloud? Why throw around some ambiguous and meaningless term? It used to be that the so called “Computer
by tacker2000 3y ago
Sorry but this is just buzzword bingo. Why not call it cloud? Why throw around some ambiguous and meaningless term?
It used to be that the so called “Computer Scientists” would be naming these things, but now it seems that its just another marketing department and lots of susceptible developers buy into that.
- ggregoire 3y agocloud vs. serverless: You can install postgres in a AWS EC2, it's in the "cloud" but you still have to do all the sysadmin work yourself. Or you can use a "serverless" postgres and let the provider do the sysadmin work for you. I guess you could call it "postgres as a service".
- mpol 3y agoThat is simply a managed server.
- icedchai 3y agoIt's more like a managed distributed system. A highly available serverless database, like AWS Aurora, is much more than "a server."
- tacker2000 3y agoHow is that server “less”? Just because you didnt install it using apt-get? Its still a server. It still uses a bare metal machine running a VM in some datacenter that is accessible remotely.
- ggregoire 3y agoI was just commenting about the difference between "cloud" and "serverless", because you said "Why not call it cloud?". I prefer "as a service" or "managed" instead of "serverless". Not a big fan of the term for the reasons you mentioned.
- tacker2000 3y agoYes i also prefer that. Thanks for clarifying.