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Re:Traits of Serverless Architecture by pjc50 on Monday August 19, 2019 @06:35PM (#20742419)
Yes, it was a local only binary connection. The key difference from regular CGI was not needing to start a new process for every request, so it could be used with languages with long VM startup time.
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Re:Traits of Serverless Architecture by floatboth on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:51PM (#20753035)
Yeah, that makes it Not CGI, so it's more like binary HTTP. I guess you could say, a precursor of HTTP/2 :)
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