#8 - The Hater's Guide To PHP Serverless Part Two: Server Less. Literally

01/10/2022 28 min Episodio 8
#8 - The Hater's Guide To PHP Serverless Part Two: Server Less. Literally

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Episode Synopsis

A frustrating aspect of understanding of "serverless" is the term itself. This term conveys what the technology is not, rather than encapsulating what the technology is.

There is a silver lining. This term, when taken literally, by describing what the technology is not, profoundly conveys the cultural divide this technology represents.

"Less", in "serverless" means "not exist". As in: "server not exist".

There is no server.

The term that conveys what this technology is, as opposed to conveying what it is not, is "compute service".