serverless en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Etymology tree English server Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English serverless From server + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Based on a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider allocates machine resources on demand.
Generally, when people think of serverless computing, they tend to think of applications with back-ends that run on third-party services, also described as code running on ephemeral containers. In my experience, many businesses and people who are new to serverless computing will consider serverless applications to be simply “in the cloud.”
2017, Maddie Stigler, Beginning Serverless Computing, Apress, →ISBN, page 1:
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(literally, not-comparable) Not involving a server; composed only of clients.
2005, Coulouris et al, Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design A group at the University of California, Berkeley, proposed a serverless network file system architecture and developed a prototype implementation.
serverless architecture
Translations (2)
fi palvelimeton (not involving a server) · ru бессе́рверный (not involving a server)