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Re:Why Netflix Rolled Its Own Node.js Functions-As-a-Service... by manigandham on Sunday October 28, 2018 @11:13PM (#18324793)
Execution is implied. What does "call to get functions" even mean?

Would you think that PaaS means an API to get platforms?

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Re:Why Netflix Rolled Its Own Node.js Functions-As-a-Service... by icebraining on Monday October 29, 2018 @04:04AM (#18325738)
Well, Joe Armstrong once proposed a global database of open source functions, that you could dynamically lookup and fetch [1]. Sounds like Functions as a Service :)

[1] http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-May/058768...

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