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I still don't get how you can store something without putting it anywhere. It's just "in transient" like electricity in a superconductor closed coil? hahaha

Not doubting it I just don't understand. Unless you're storing through "cache" client-side or direct RAM I don't know.

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Serverless just means not hosting your own infrastructure + boxes. Amazon Lambda is a good example where you run arbitrary script on their infrastructure on demand, without having always-available servers.

I find the term "serverless" quite misleading. Essentially, all the code in the world has to run on a machine so there is nothing really "server-less" about it.

It's probably more accurate to say something like "devops-free" since management of servers is hived off to a third party. Sounds less buzz-worthy, so maybe someone can come up with something better.

But there is still a database? (I realize this wasn't mentioned in the thread title). yeah "serverless" seems kind of mis-leading. I'm wondering though what "script/language" you'd write this. How to store... should probably learn how to read first.

Thanks for the clarification.

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