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"Serverless" is "I don't have to provision a server, or worry about where it is, or maintain it, or what OS it's running, or any of the other fiddly details."

You define a function, you hand that function to a company, and they make sure it runs when certain conditions are met. You then don't have to worry about the server.

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I think the problem is that these terms had meanings before the last five or so years. There are setups that are actually accurately describable as "serverless" - for example, SQLite is called a "serverless database" because it's an embeddable library that just operates off a file as opposed to client-server DBs like Postgres or MySQL.

Yeah. See https://www.sqlite.org/serverless.html

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