[dboreham]

In this context "server" doesn't mean "entity listening on some network endpoint, providing some service to network-connected clients" (which is I think the definition you're assuming). Instead "server" here means "Unix Machine".

Thus "serverless" means software and humans writing and deploying said software that do not need to know anything about /etc/<whatever> and installing packages and disk partitioning and swapping and whether Python 2 or Python 3 gets installed by default this week and ...

IMHO a good thing, mostly.

[bronson]

So my car is engineless if I never look under the hood?

[rileyphone]

I think this architecture is public transportation in that analogy.

[bobbyi_settv]

Your car isn't engineless because when its engine dies, you will know about it and have to do something. S3 is serverless because if one of the servers storing my files die, I have no way of even knowing it happened.

[Sanddancer]

S3's had downtime, and had data loss incidents. S3's only serverless if you believe Amazon's infallible.

[dboreham]

I didn't invent the terminology. Like many many things in this business the terms used are often confusing/wrong/overloaded/re-invented-from-the-1980's and so on. Part of the landscape unfortunately.

[themihai]

Maybe worry free if you don't need to look under the hood. If the manufacturer would lock the hood you would never know :)

[dingaling]

They actually did lock the hood with the Audi A1. Just had a flap through which you could top-up water and oil.

Perhaps we could adopt 'A1' instead of the confusing term 'serverless'...