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by aikah 3537 days ago
The point is "serverless" is a sham. Your clients still need to rely on another service API Gateway to communicate with the outside world. So stop with this stupid marketing.

Your are selling a basic pubsub architecture as something "innovative" when the only real innovation is the pricing. That's the exact definition of marketing, and at the same time you are making the community of web developers sound like idiots that don't understand what a server is. You can make plenty of money without being missleading, why do you feel the need to use a misleading language ?

There is a server, period.

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Of course there's a server, or do you think you're the only genius in the room who understands client server communication? "Serverless" is a legitimate phrase to describe a growing phenomenon. Most reasonable people read "serverless" as "server I don't have to admin", not "there is no server". No one wants to read your pedantic bloviating, get over it!
> Most reasonable people read "serverless" as "server I don't have to admin"

Most reasonable people find the "serverless" moniker obnoxious to begin with. If something doesn't require administration then call it "adminless", not "serverless"

As others have said, serverless applies to the pricing model, in which it makes perfect sense, imo.
Yes we agree that "serverless" is pure marketing. as I already said.

> Your are selling a basic pubsub architecture as something "innovative" when the only real innovation is the pricing.