People used “function as a service”, “managed *” or “compute as a service” for a bit, but serverless actually seemed to capture the gist of it for customers better. It may be marketing speak, but it does seem to be an effective shorthand for the value it provides.
I still think it should be called server-transparent instead of serverless. Makes it a little clearer.
People used “function as a service”, “managed *” or “compute as a service” for a bit, but serverless actually seemed to capture the gist of it for customers better. It may be marketing speak, but it does seem to be an effective shorthand for the value it provides.
Wouldn’t it be server-opaque though, bc they don’t see the server details?
In computer science, “transparent” means that you don’t see something, i.e. internals are hidden. Like you don’t see glass.