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Lol reminds me of "ITS SERVERLESS!" Which always cracks me up, as someone who does find serverless useful for very strategic scenarios, naming things as though they don't require a computer somewhere to function has been one of the weirdest trends in tech.

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I don't see the connection. The article is full of talk of servers: app servers, view servers, database servers, event log servers, ...

The name "serverless" doesn't mean that there are no servers. It means that, as a developer, you don't need to manage the server. It's abstracted out for you.

I know what it means, I pitched serverless as a new tool to a former employer back nearly a decade ago, I had to thoroughly research it because the manager would of said no if I had no idea how it worked, funnily enough, he said yes before I could finish my entire pitch.

The name still sounds silly.

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