serverless: IT terminology gets dumberer
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I used to be annoyed by the term 'serverless' until I stopped thinking of it as a description of the underlying technology, and started thinking of it as a description of the billing model. I don't have to care if it's running on a server, or a potato, or a kitten, as long as I'm always billed the same amount for the normalized amount of computing resources I've consumed. Overall, instead of 'serverless', I prefer Functions as as Service (FaaS). That gives a decent idea of what to expect, and gives a relatively easy way to compare it against IaaS (like EC2 and other bits of AWS) and PaaS (Like Azure App Service and Google App Engine).
Ryan Peden wrote:
I prefer Functions as as Service (FaaS).
I agree with you and I think your naming is much better. The whole issue was that I came across this serverless term and thought, "Hmm...is this a PWA (Progressive Web App) of some sort? Something just running on client?" Words are important! :rolleyes: