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Re:Show HN: Serverless USGS historical topographic map tiles by bdon on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:35PM (#27071844)
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"
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Re:Show HN: Serverless USGS historical topographic map tiles by gpvos on Friday May 07, 2021 @02:46AM (#27073015)
Thanks, finally a somewhat clear definition. It's still a misnomer though.
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Re:Show HN: Serverless USGS historical topographic map tiles by dmos62 on Friday May 07, 2021 @02:52AM (#27073057)
True. Point to remember that client-side != serverless.
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