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Serverless is immediately suspicious just as a name: ofc there s a server, running a piece of code, it s just way less efficient when you need good latency but
by xwolfi 3y ago
Serverless is immediately suspicious just as a name: ofc there s a server, running a piece of code, it s just way less efficient when you need good latency but a lot more when you need giant throughput.
You can do the same with a dump server and a few scripts, and for cheaper. Im sure these people would be shocked to how aws or other cloud vendors implemented it
- tommek4077 3y agoThey probably just use the same Perl scripts like the old share hosters from the late 90s early 00s, but with a complete state of the art JS frontend. ;)
- ahefner 3y agoThere's a kernel of a brilliant idea to it, but when it's really just marketing speak for spinning up a VM or container on demand, it's kind of a joke.