Re:Dawson – A Serverless Web Framework for Node.js on AWS
by dualogy on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @08:26AM
(#13921525)
> mean that you don't have to provision, administer, scale, or retire servers, nor do you have to pay for persistent compute resources rather than simply execution
Given all the work this appears to save one, there's a curious explosion of "serverless" articles, frameworks, APIs, 'practices', crash-courses, workshops, talks .. ah well, par for the course with anything tech that gains a catchy moniker.
(Perhaps that's why FP doesn't take off quite as much, "Monads" should have been called "Promises" 30 years ago, and Peano Numbers "numberless maths"!)
Given all the work this appears to save one, there's a curious explosion of "serverless" articles, frameworks, APIs, 'practices', crash-courses, workshops, talks .. ah well, par for the course with anything tech that gains a catchy moniker.
(Perhaps that's why FP doesn't take off quite as much, "Monads" should have been called "Promises" 30 years ago, and Peano Numbers "numberless maths"!)