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Re:GitLab Serverless by shabda on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @04:28AM (#18662514)
You are coming up with your ow definition of serverless. For most people serverless means

1. Per invocation billing 2. No need to provision resources ahead of time

Taking AWS's example

1. EC2 is not serverless but Lambda is 2. RDS is not serverless but Aurora Serverless is.

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Re:GitLab Serverless by TomMarius on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @04:40AM (#18662569)
It's not their own definition, this was the default definition just a few years ago.
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Re:GitLab Serverless by runn1ng on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @04:58AM (#18662630)
People started to use the term for something else and now it became the main meaning.

"Serverless" is nowadays "AWS Lambda" (and similar products).

I wish people called it FaaS (function as a service), but they call it "serverless", and it's fine I guess

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Re:GitLab Serverless by antocv on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @05:07AM (#18662656)
Yeah, now the term is an oxymoron, "serverless" but there is a server and a client.
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