Yeah, you can't do synchronous stuff on it, like you would say lambda, or what ever google calls theirs. I think calling it serverless is probably confusing to

Yeah, you can't do synchronous stuff on it, like you would say lambda, or what ever google calls theirs. I think calling it serverless is probably confusing to a lot of the outside world, as to them serverless is cgi-bin for the docker generation. this form of serverless is very much batch jobs with some modern bits sprinkled in. perhaps they should have called it serverless batch, or Batch-as-a-service, async-serverless or serverless-futures.