Re:Show HN: Serverless USGS historical topographic map tiles
by coin on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:12PM
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How is this “serverless”? There’s still a S3 and Lambda server.
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Re:Show HN: Serverless USGS historical topographic map tiles
by bdon on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:35PM
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If the developer does not need to deal with a long-running process abstraction, and is billed only by actual compute time and not idle time, I think the consensus is to call that "serverless"
Re:Show HN: Serverless USGS historical topographic map tiles
by gpvos on Friday May 07, 2021 @02:46AM
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Thanks, finally a somewhat clear definition. It's still a misnomer though.
Re:Show HN: Serverless USGS historical topographic map tiles
by dmos62 on Friday May 07, 2021 @02:52AM
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True. Point to remember that client-side != serverless.
Re:Show HN: Serverless USGS historical topographic map tiles
by kylebarron on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:19PM
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S3 isn't a server, it's an object store. This uses Lambda (the serverless part) to fetch source data on demand, combine, reproject to web mercator, and send to the client.
There are varied definitions of serverless; it isn't "as serverless" as the browser loading data directly from S3, but an AWS marketing person would call this usage of Lambda serverless.