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Discussion on: The differing definitions of “serverless”

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tux0r

"Cloud" is Marketingish for "other people's computers". Say "other people's computers" if you mean that.

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Jeremy Likness ⚡️

I actually did mean the cloud, as in, run on a cloud provider vs. the server my neighbor has in their basement.

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tux0r

So it makes a huge difference for you whether the computer of other people stands in a rack or in a basement?

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Jeremy Likness ⚡️

It does! If it's in a basement and the basement floods or a tornado hits or the neighborhood experiences a power outage, I'm done. A major motivation for going to the "cloud" is to take advantage of features like high availability and regional failover that I don't get from my neighbor's basement. I'd rather not have to set up things like BGP on my own.