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> By now, everyone knows that serverless doesn't actually mean without servers; it just means using someone else's servers.

What? Is this some kind of confusing reference to lambda and competing providers? As far as I know most of computing is serverless.



In my experience when someone says the specific word "serverless" they mean "lambda and competing providers" 100% of the time.


This usually refers to the billing model of the computation.

Serverless products usually are charging by # of invocations or CPU times, whereas "server-full" products charge you a multiply of "# of servers".


The proper term for that is "shared hosting". Serverless is just technobabble.




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