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Re:Serverless: A lesson learned the hard way by nathancahill on Thursday August 10, 2017 @02:22PM (#14982594)
Eh, if I'm deploying a cloud function, the server truly doesn't exist for me. It's more like a Web Worker running in a privileged environment. I'm ok with the name.
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Re:Serverless: A lesson learned the hard way by sidlls on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:22PM (#14983166)
No, it's really a server running your function. You just (are told you) don't have to worry about the server or what it's actually doing.
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Re:Serverless: A lesson learned the hard way by dvfjsdhgfv on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:29PM (#14983233)
> You just (are told you) don't have to worry about the server

...until you receive the $206 bill for the work done by the server.

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Re:Serverless: A lesson learned the hard way by nathancahill on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:31PM (#14983249)
But that works on the VPS level too. We're just talking about higher levels of abstraction on top of hardware. Which one stops being a "server"? I'd argue that once you lose the OS, it's no longer a "server".
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