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> Is This a New Idea? > The concept of letting users pay only for the time that code actually runs has > been around since it was introduced as part of the Zi
by G3rn0ti 3y ago
> Is This a New Idea?
> The concept of letting users pay only for the time that code actually runs has
> been around since it was introduced as part of the Zimki PaaS in 2006, and the
> Google App Engine offered a very similar solution at around the same time.
You could argue the way you architect "serverless" services feels very similar to the way we built CGI scripts in the 90s. If you kept those scripts small, everyone of those would have been the equivalent of a serverless function today.
- miohtama 3y agoThis was, in fact, how web 1.0 worked. The whole dynamic web was bunch of PHP scripts in your home folder. Even the early Amazon was a collection of Perl scripts glued together.
- smallmancontrov 3y agoDidn't old-school mainframes with discrete transistor CPUs use time-share mechanisms and charge enough for the time that people cared about minimizing it? UNIX goes back 50 years, but IIRC there was a substantial amount of "pre-history" before that too. What's old is new again.