[jawr]

It’s serverless

[TechnicolorByte]

For someone who doesn’t know much about this stuff, what does that mean?

[not_kurt_godel]

Ignore them, it's unlikely they know what they're talking about at multiple levels

[syrrim]

Usually that it works via "functions" like aws lambda that don't maintain a long running process, but instead start a new process for every request.

[penjelly]

my understanding is that in a serverless architecture the dev does not manage the server, there still is one but its managed via third party cloud services who expose basic server or database functions which your app can plug into.

think a "like count" database, it needs to increment and persist. Both very simple, and its implementation is entirely decoupled from the client implementation. Firebase would manage that for you, youd just call firebase functions instead of updating a database yourself.

note: i dont know if this is how tiktok works

[europeanguy]

It means it has no server.