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rlyshw on Feb 13, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on S...

>[serverless computing] closely parallels past advances in programmer productivity, such as the transition from assembly language to high-level programming languages

Is this serious? The author seems to imply that we can just abstract away the entire internet in the same way we abstracted away copper wires.

emteycz on Feb 13, 2019 [–]

But we did, didn't we? How is modern serverless different from shared LAMP hostings of the past?

scarface74 on Feb 13, 2019 | [–]

Shared lamp hosting didn’t give you the security, scalability or isolation that lambda gives you.

emteycz on Feb 16, 2019 | | [–]

The implementation was lacking, but the concept is nearly identical.

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