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Discussion on: Wait... Serverless Isn't Actually Serverless?

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ItsThatHexagonGuy

How would you name it then? lol Something like worry-less server?

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Matt Ellen

Managed servers. It's no different paying Amazon to manage your server than anyone else.

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Rodrigo Costa • Edited

Martin Fowler gives an in-depth overview of "serverless" in this article: martinfowler.com/articles/serverle...

He suggests the names Faas (Function as a Service) and/or BaaS (Backend as a Service) -- actually, the name FaaS was first suggested in a tweet.

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Matt Ellen • Edited

Both are better options for their respective applications. Naming is still one of the hardest things in computer science ;)

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Rodrigo Costa

IMHO FaaS suits pretty well this "serverless" computing model.