News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:The Architecture of Serverless Data Systems by alternatex on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @03:16AM (#38274442)
All cloud hosting is "somebody-elses-server". Serverless is more like "pay-per-function-call" in which case Azure Functions has a pretty appropriate name.

Also, the cost of renting databases has nothing to do with newness. Databases have evolved a lot in the past two decades. They do all sorts of stuff under the hood, which is why they can now often consume massive amounts of RAM. That doesn't come for free.

Re:The Architecture of Serverless Data Systems by javaunsafe2019 on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @08:49AM (#38276558)
Did you knownthode functions are executed on containers which, in the end, are tiny server. It’s all just some marketing and printing out you don’t have to deal with the management of the containers just the configuration if you like to have some hot loaded lambdas etc