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0 pointscryptonector8y ago0 comments

"Serverless" is itself a bit of a misnomer. The point seems to be to distribute stateless sub-computations. Whoop dee doo. At some point you need a "server" to modify application state. A static site has no state modifications, so it actually is serverless in this sense of having stateless computation.

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icebraining8y ago

I get it, but while the name is not very good, there's a reason why it came about now, despite the fact that we've had static website hosting for decades. It was coined to describe a particular kind of service, and retrofitting it makes it less useful and more prone to confusion.

neya8y ago

Thanks, that was exactly what I was going to reply. Perfectly explained, thank you.

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