[dragonwriter]

So, are we just now using “serverless” to just mean “dynamically scalable” the same way that “cloud” used to?

Because, previously, “serverless” seemed to mean not needing to deal with anything lower-level infrastructure than function calls (that is, a higher level of abstraction than even a classical PaaS like GAE managed runtimes), while container hosting, dynamically scalable or not, is somewhere between classic IaaS and classic application-language PaaS.

[sctb]

We've updated the submission title from “Microsoft Azure launches serverless container instances” to that of the article, which doesn't mention serverless at all.

[gabrtv]

Serverless tends to be a conflation of 3 features:

1. Invisible infrastructure

2. Microbilling

3. Event-based programming model

ACI offers 1 and 2 without forcing 3, thanks to containers.

[owebmaster]

And both seems wrong to me. Serverless would be without server, not with an "intermittent" server. Serverless should design architectures without server processing per request (like jekyll compared to wordpress).

[resouer]

Agree, please don't mix this with serverless, ACI is definitely your server. Hyper Func or AWS Lambda is much closer.

[CharlesW]

I wanted to see this in context but couldn't find it. Is the word "serverless" used in the article?

[rifung]

If you look at a reply to the comment you're replying to you'll see it previously in the title. It might have been posted between the change and your comment

[dragonwriter]

While we've passed the point that this shows up in the timestamp, the message that indicated the change to the title was 1 minute before the one asking the question about where the term was used.