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On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 4:47 PM Forrest Christian (List Account)
<lists@packetflux.com> wrote:
>
> The point of serverless is that I'm buying transactions, NOT a server.   =
It
> could be a MQTT transaction, or a web page delivery, or a DNS response or
> storage in a Database, or whatever.
>
> Let me see if I can use a different item to describe why I think the term
> serverless is fine:

"Actually "Serverless"  is a pretty accurate term"

"Then another serverless service could say 'if you see a temperature over a
certain amount, send an email', and so on."

The whole point is:

1. Someone else implements the server side for you.
2. you are buying services,
3. you only have a client implementation.
4. You still need to configure the MQTT Server and the client with the
cryptographic keys, if you are doing anything serious over the internet

That does not mean that the system is serverless.
There are other serverless systems, which use P2P modes of operation.
It is still a well defined Client Server architecture.

That's what I was trying to assert.

Just because, I bought email services from a third party, the system topolo=
gy
is not "serverless". You still need to configure the client for server
connectivity.

When the provider is down, it is termed as Server down, not anything else!

Manu
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