The dumbest name for a good architecture is “serverless”

(written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.com, or follow me on Twitter.

I strongly agree that the idea is good, but the name “serverless” is really stupid:

So… this is backend infrastructure (i.e. it runs on a server) to let your team deploy “severless” apps…

So they’re serverless. Except the server you’re running it on. And the lamba/style code they wrote and uploaded to it.

But serverless, because no ops staff required. Except the ones who installed and maintain this.

This is like a snake eating its own tail and wondering what hurts.

Edit: despite my sarcasm, it’s always good to see open-source solutions to reduce reliance (or risk of reliance) on closed vendor solutions. Just stop calling it serverless, and I’ll stop telling you how fucking ridiculous that name is.

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    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11683121
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