[Fischgericht]

Wow, that is just amazing.

So it means that if I connect to treezor.com, I am not talking to a server, but it's direct communication with god in heaven?

And it's not a badly configured server, but the Content "Security" Policy allowing FOURTY different sites, including unsafe inlines (!) is beamed into my brain from a different universe?

And the PHP "software" also clearly is running on a server, because PHP isn't a server-side scripting language, it's all happening in your mind!

/s

Hint: The whole point of a bank is BEING a server, be a central trusted authority accepting and executing transactions from and between clients. A serverless bank is a bank that no longer exists, but got replaced by peer-to-peer transactions.

[andrewxdiamond]

I don’t understand why people nit-pick the wording “serverless” when the benefits of not having to manage servers is very real.

Yes, there is a computer. Good job, you pointed it out. No one is paying AWS money because they think amazon is somehow running code without computers being involved. They’re paying to run lambdas to avoid dealing with the computers that run the code.

Banks specifically have much higher operational costs due to regulatory requirements. Banks like to focus on their financial strategy and outsource the rest.

[Fischgericht]

Of course us Nerds know that "serverless" is just a BS marketing term.

I am nitpicking because there are technically uneducated people (managers) who actually believe in these BS marketing terms. People who already thought that such a thing as a "cloud" exists, resulting in us now having to look at our personal data getting stolen once per week because some manager thought you no longer need competent system administrators, because you are just pushing that personal data "to the cloud", so no risks involved.

And in this regard, the term "serverless" is even worse. It's basically the flat earthers of technology.

These BS marketing terms like "cloud" and "serverless" are an excuse for managers to act in an irresponsible fashion, thinking competence is no longer needed in-house. But competence IS needed.

And that's why every single person of "us" in each and every conversation should point out "you are putting the data of your customers and your businesses existence into the hands of someone you don't know at all" and avoid the BS marketing terms. If we go along with them, we are just hurting us, our employers, customers and/or clients, and humanity.

So, in this case the article should be translated into:

"Our intern wrote some crappy PHP shit because he is not really a programmer but a baseball player, and we have decided to just upload and expose all our stuff to some random organization at an unknown location under unknown control so we don't have to deal with this stuff anymore once the intern has left."

:)