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Re:Why Netflix Rolled Its Own Node.js Functions-As-a-Service... by fouc on Sunday October 28, 2018 @08:41PM (#18324144)
I haven't heard of those being called serverless. Those are more PaaS I guess.
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Re:Why Netflix Rolled Its Own Node.js Functions-As-a-Service... by jshen on Sunday October 28, 2018 @10:38PM (#18324610)
It’s a spectrum and the boundaries are unclear. By this definition https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/serverless/glossary/serv... they are more serverless than PaaS imo.

Either way, serverless is a superset of FaaS.

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Re:Why Netflix Rolled Its Own Node.js Functions-As-a-Service... by jehlakj on Sunday October 28, 2018 @09:32PM (#18324321)
He could have meant that it’s an ambiguous term that could apply to other platforms.
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