the.com/serverless
still servers, just someone else's problem now.
means a cloud computing model where you write code and the provider handles all the infrastructure, scaling it up or down automatically.
from coined in the 2010s as cloud providers like aws launched lambda in 2014, letting developers run functions without provisioning servers, the marketing team just dropped the awkward truth from the name.
aws lambdalaunched 2014, kicked off the trend
actual serversstill there, just abstracted away completely
billing modelpay per execution, not idle uptime
cold startsfunctions can lag waking from sleep