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Hi everyone, I was curious to see how many times my GitHub profile page was visited so I made a counter for it. Since I made it, I've decided to share. Thanks.

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The 1990s called and wants it’s hit counter back! Seriously though: Cool project :-).

Thank you. I remember this being super popular in my blogging times (this and third party comments system) but when I needed one I didn't find any. So before bed yesterday I wrote one. Glad you liked it.

Does this count as serverless? I don't see the usual request response event loop.

Request response event loop?

It is a dynamic image generator written in PHP that increments the counter it renders. It runs on a PHP web server. Its not serverless.

I think it was an attempt for a joke as today even the easiest jobs like increment a number are over-engineered with serverless architecture

.php files were the original "lambda"s.

For true serverless, turn off your PC, laptop and phone and go for a walk in nature.

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