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I love how using the term "serverless" for a backend provider immediately confuses me about the actual product. Win?
by pbnjay 14y ago
I love how using the term "serverless" for a backend provider immediately confuses me about the actual product. Win?
- Void_ 14y agoThey want you to build server-less apps, so they provide the server. It makes sense.
- samtp 14y agoBut the apps aren't "server-less". The server is just controlled by a different party.
- rohansingh 14y agoAgreed. These apps are "serverless" in the same sense that outsourcing development makes your application codeless.
- pbnjay 14y agoIt's not a server-less app if it's using a server though. Does not make sense.
- g0su 14y agoAlthough I agree with your point, it didn't confused me at all. I've clearly understood that it was "serverless" in the sense that I don't have to build the server.
- pbnjay 14y agoMy point is that I had to read way too much to figure out that they meant they provide the server, for what is actually a "serverfull" application. Just reading the headline, it makes me think that they've somehow built a P2P "serverless" framework for hosting a mobile app. Which does sound intriguing to me, but it's not what they're offering.
- rickmb 14y agoNot so much confusion as setting off by BS-alarm. It's basically like calling a taxi a "driverless" form of transport, just because you don't do the driving.