I am all for reducing hype and buzzwords. This post doesn't make the best case against them.
> Would it be accurate to call modern cars "engineless"?
No.
Uber/Lyft/Taxi perhaps would be closer to "engineless".
The point of "serverless" is to allow you to run your functions without (in an ideal world) worrying about the foundation that needs to exist for your function to run
> All this might seem as nitpicking but I don't think it is. I think the terms are intentionally misleading. What is your sentiment?
My sentiment is to not get bothered by hype and buzzwords.
The reason why we have so much high quality OSS in 2022 is because a lot of people with money but little understanding of technology get excited by hype and buzzwords and put in billions of their dollars as investments.
It is these investments that subsidize the high quality OSS we all depend on.
Once you realize this, you start to fall in love with hype and buzzwords as a way to extract maximum money from the clueless. As long as you try your actual best to deliver something, it's all good.
PS: WEB3, AI/ML, Blockchain, Crypto, NFT, Decentralized. The people putting in actual money into these have no clue what any of these mean and that's ok - their money gets us hired to work on these things.
> Would it be accurate to call modern cars "engineless"?
No.
Uber/Lyft/Taxi perhaps would be closer to "engineless".
The point of "serverless" is to allow you to run your functions without (in an ideal world) worrying about the foundation that needs to exist for your function to run
> All this might seem as nitpicking but I don't think it is. I think the terms are intentionally misleading. What is your sentiment?
My sentiment is to not get bothered by hype and buzzwords.
The reason why we have so much high quality OSS in 2022 is because a lot of people with money but little understanding of technology get excited by hype and buzzwords and put in billions of their dollars as investments.
It is these investments that subsidize the high quality OSS we all depend on.
Once you realize this, you start to fall in love with hype and buzzwords as a way to extract maximum money from the clueless. As long as you try your actual best to deliver something, it's all good.
PS: WEB3, AI/ML, Blockchain, Crypto, NFT, Decentralized. The people putting in actual money into these have no clue what any of these mean and that's ok - their money gets us hired to work on these things.