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by wodny 2355 days ago
There is a huge difference between a metaphor (resemblance) and contradiction (stating it is and isn't something at the same time).
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What’s the “resemblance” of “running in the cloud” to “running on servers owned by someone else”?
It isn't a great name, but: it doesn't bare a contradiction in itself (contrary to "serverless"), there was already a tradition of drawing unspecified networks or internet as a cloud in diagrams. So "running in the cloud" as running "somewhere in the network we used to draw as a cloud" has an explanation. Also note, I didn't state that there are only two types of names. I commented on what "bug" and "serverless" is.