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Re:A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES by fooblat on Friday April 30, 2021 @10:30AM (#26993943)
Yes and no, respectively.

A cgi-bin is as highly available as the web infrastructure hosting it, which as the cgi-bin author you don't need to know anything about.

A cgi-bin cannot "crash" because there is nothing long-running to crash. It is only run on demand.

I think it is easy to make the case that CGI was the proto-serverless api and that the serverless offerings we have today are an evolution of the CGI approach.

edit: typos

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Re:A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES by mprovost on Friday April 30, 2021 @10:40AM (#26994042)
And cgi-bin was really just an evolution of inetd (or ucspi-tcp if you worshipped at the altar of djb). You didn't used to have to worry about binding to ports or long running processes. Something would just send you a message on stdin and you replied on stdout.
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