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Re:Ask HN: Have you shipped anything serious with a “serverl... by humbleMouse on Saturday June 23, 2018 @02:18AM (#17379830)
Agreed, it doesn't make much sense hearing "serverless". Like, is data being served to a client or not?

I haven't done much reading up on it but it basically sounds like someone else is hosting and executing your code?

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Re:Ask HN: Have you shipped anything serious with a “serverl... by _bxg1 on Saturday June 23, 2018 @11:27AM (#17381691)
To my understanding, it mean you write endpoints and only endpoints. You don't have to configure an OS, or even write the code that says "bind to port X and start". You just say "when you get this request, do this". Which is a neat abstraction! But there's still a server, you just don't have to manage it directly.
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Re:Ask HN: Have you shipped anything serious with a “serverl... by humbleMouse on Saturday June 23, 2018 @02:06PM (#17382491)
That makes perfect sense. Calling it "serverless" is kind of weird though. I can see the point from a marketing perspective but "serverless" is just such a weird term.
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