What is "serverless"?
Zeipt opened this issue · 3 comments
Amazon AWS is serverless? Or Firebase?
Amazon provides a service called Lambda that consist on running functions, snippets of code on the cloud. Firebase provide also cloud services, but it's not the same.
And clouds are not servers? Ooook..
I'll try to keep this simple: the phrase “serverless” doesn’t mean servers are no longer involved. It simply means that developers no longer have to think "that much" about them. Computing resources get used as services without having to manage around physical capacities or limits.
Let's take for example AWS Lambda. "Lambda allows you to NOT think about servers. Which means you no longer have to deal with over/under capacity, deployments, scaling and fault tolerance, OS or language updates, metrics, and logging."