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Re:Serverless Map/Reduce by vog on Friday November 04, 2016 @01:18PM (#12874210)
The term "Serverless" means that you don't manage the servers, neither hardware nor virtual machines. Instead, you use exclusively AWS lambda and/or similar services.

I find that term confusing, too, but it seems to be well-established by now, so we have to live with that.

See also: http://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html

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Re:Serverless Map/Reduce by g_delgado14 on Friday November 04, 2016 @01:20PM (#12874234)
Doesn't necessarily have to be through AWS. In fact, the Serverless Framework folks are working hard to make their framework suitable for other serverless service providers.
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Re:Serverless Map/Reduce by vog on Friday November 04, 2016 @01:21PM (#12874244)
> Doesn't necessarily have to be through AWS

Please refrain from strawman arguments. I wrote "AWS lambda and/or similar services".

In the Fowler article, you find a nice classification of these services:

- BaaS (Backend as a Service)

- FaaS (Funciton as a Service)

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Re:Serverless Map/Reduce by g_delgado14 on Friday November 04, 2016 @01:23PM (#12874265)
Sorry :P read "exclusively AWS", and stopped reading!
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