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Re:Serverless Databases: The Future of Event-Driven Architec... by styfle on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @06:13PM (#16380455)
But didn’t we already have this concept with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)?

What you described sounds like Heroku, Azure Apps, etc.

Re:Serverless Databases: The Future of Event-Driven Architec... by amarkov on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @07:19PM (#16380874)
In many simple cases, Heroku is effectively serverless. But there are situations (in particular monitoring and billing) where you're forced to think about the individual dynos your app is running on.