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Re:Going Serverless: Migrating an Express App to AWS API Gat... by aikah on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @08:14AM (#12683607)
The point is "serverless" is a sham. Your clients still need to rely on another service API Gateway to communicate with the outside world. So stop with this stupid marketing.

Your are selling a basic pubsub architecture as something "innovative" when the only real innovation is the pricing. That's the exact definition of marketing, and at the same time you are making the community of web developers sound like idiots that don't understand what a server is. You can make plenty of money without being missleading, why do you feel the need to use a misleading language ?

There is a server, period.

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Re:Going Serverless: Migrating an Express App to AWS API Gat... by le-mark on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @08:25AM (#12683680)
Of course there's a server, or do you think you're the only genius in the room who understands client server communication? "Serverless" is a legitimate phrase to describe a growing phenomenon. Most reasonable people read "serverless" as "server I don't have to admin", not "there is no server". No one wants to read your pedantic bloviating, get over it!
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Re:Going Serverless: Migrating an Express App to AWS API Gat... by aikah on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @08:27AM (#12683699)
> Most reasonable people read "serverless" as "server I don't have to admin"

Most reasonable people find the "serverless" moniker obnoxious to begin with. If something doesn't require administration then call it "adminless", not "serverless"

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Re:Going Serverless: Migrating an Express App to AWS API Gat... by marktangotango on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @08:34AM (#12683744)
As others have said, serverless applies to the pricing model, in which it makes perfect sense, imo.
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Re:Going Serverless: Migrating an Express App to AWS API Gat... by aikah on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @08:51AM (#12683867)
Yes we agree that "serverless" is pure marketing. as I already said.

> Your are selling a basic pubsub architecture as something "innovative" when the only real innovation is the pricing.

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