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Re:Serverless Development with Serverless Framework by 1337shadow on Monday December 09, 2019 @02:33PM (#21745588)
I think you're confused between FaaS and Serverless. Serverless is an Amazon service, Firebase is not serverless, however both are FaaS. I'm talking specifically about AWS Serverless.
Re:Serverless Development with Serverless Framework by dragonwriter on Monday December 09, 2019 @04:16PM (#21746683)
> I think you're confused between FaaS and Serverless.

I think you are confused about those.

> Serverless is an Amazon service,

No, it's not.

1. The “Serverless Application Model” is an AWS functionality (a transform for CloudFormation templates for serverless [see #3] compute.)

2. “Serverless Framework” is an open-source product that is independent of Amazon (though it originally targeted only AWS) which supports multiple cloud provider.

3. “serverless” is a broad concept for cloud computing without managing server instances, encompassing, among other things, FaaS—AWS popularized the term, but it's used generally across the industry.

> Firebase is not serverless

Someone tell Google: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-developme...

Re:Serverless Development with Serverless Framework by 1337shadow on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @02:17AM (#21750376)
Nice, thank you for the heads up. Nonetheless, they had about 8 tables in their database when they started getting blocked by the endpoint limit on AWS Serverless, I'm guessing they were far from a thousand endpoints.
Re:Serverless Development with Serverless Framework by com2kid on Monday December 09, 2019 @04:05PM (#21746565)
Firebase also offers DBs, storage, and even hosting. I'm confused as to why you say it isn't serverless,

AWS's "Serverless" (wow that name...) looks like a suite of existing products advertised under one label. From their splash page it looks mostly equivalent to what Firebase, although it seems Amazon has some functionality that Firebase itself doesn't have (necessitating using the full Google Cloud).