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How I Built a Serverless Function Without Knowing It, I Think*

Gerald Nash ⚡️ on April 09, 2017

It’s the weekend after a week full of exams. I’m exhausted and am just waiting to graduate high school. But, like any other developer I feel the ur...
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Bojan Tomic

The GIFs are so distracting and annoying I couldn't read the whole thing...

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Webdesign29

how is a publicly accessible and hosted API anywhere near serverless ...
I mean WTF ...

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Thibault Maekelbergh

I don't think you understand what serverless means in modern web development.

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Daniel Waller (he/him)

So it's basically a pure function you hooked up to a webservice...Serverless seems like a silly term though (clearly there's a server involved) stateless maybe? Or even stackless?

But in any case it's really cool and you can scale that shit into oblivion at super tiny costs! Nice work :)

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Benjamin Köppchen

So, another definition of serverless might be "it's not only 'share nothing', but 'nothing to share'?" :)

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Finnian Anderson

This is really cool! Love the simplicity and the GIFs to explain above 😉👍