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by kentonv 2902 days ago
"Serverless" is a recent industry buzzword which roughly means: "Server hosting environment where you upload code representing some sort of event handler and let the host decide where and when to run it. You are billed per event rather than per server instance."

This article is comparing the raw CPU power provided by two different serverless products. PBKDF2 is used only as an example of a computation requiring a lot of CPU.

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> PBKDF2 is used only as an example of a computation requiring a lot of CPU.

Oh wow, I completely missed the point here. Having worked on strong client-side hashing in browsers and being into crypto generally, I saw this problem being presented and completely mistook it. Thanks!