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		bitwize on July 18, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Serverless Architectures Not really, as long as it's useful. But call it what it is -- hosted services. Don't make up a new, nonsensical name.

justinhj on July 19, 2016 [–]

Hosted services doesn't really differentiate what they are. DynamoDB is a hosted service. So is EC2 and ECS.

bitwize on July 19, 2016 | [–]

Then call it function hosting or business-logic hosting. "Serverless" means "there is no server" which is demonstrably false. Or should I assume that words don't mean things?

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