Meanings
- not comparablecomputingBased on a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider allocates machine resources on demand.
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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 - literallynot comparablecomputingNot involving a server; composed only of clients.
serverless architecture
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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.
Origin
- Middle Englishservere
- Englishserver
- Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
- Proto-Germanic*leusaną
- Proto-Germanic*lausaz
- Englishserverless
Translations
Finnish palvelimeton
- palvelimetonnot involving a server
Russian бессе́рверный
- бессе́рверный (bessérvernyj)not involving a server
Cite this entry
serverless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/serverless
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