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Is a Google App Engine application also serverless?

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Perhaps that's PaaS? Lambda and others are now described as FaaS (function as a service).

This might help:

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/Serverless.html

Google has a seperate cloud functions offering:

https://cloud.google.com/functions/

Kinda surprised Google don't have Golang as their language. AWS offers nodejs, Java and Python. I wonder if it's due to being able to charge more for slow to start VM based languages?

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