top | item 47034340 (no title) cachius | 13 days ago Serverless means spinning compute resources up on demand in the cloud vs. running a server permanently. discuss order hn newest dsr_|13 days ago ~99.995% of the computing resources used on this are from somebody else's servers, running the LLM model. locknitpicker|13 days ago > Serverless means spinning compute resources up on demand in the cloud vs. running a server permanently.Not quite. Serverless means you can run a server permanently, but you need pay someone else to manage the infrastructure for you. Stefan-H|13 days ago You might be conflating "cloud" with serverless. Serverless is where developers can focus on code, with little care of the infrastructure it runs on, and is pay-as-you-go. load replies (1) turtlebits|13 days ago Close. It means there's no persistent infra charges and you're charged on use. You dont run anything permanently. load replies (1) jwiz|13 days ago Depends if you mean "server" as in piece of metal (or vm), or as in "a daemon"
dsr_|13 days ago ~99.995% of the computing resources used on this are from somebody else's servers, running the LLM model.
locknitpicker|13 days ago > Serverless means spinning compute resources up on demand in the cloud vs. running a server permanently.Not quite. Serverless means you can run a server permanently, but you need pay someone else to manage the infrastructure for you. Stefan-H|13 days ago You might be conflating "cloud" with serverless. Serverless is where developers can focus on code, with little care of the infrastructure it runs on, and is pay-as-you-go. load replies (1) turtlebits|13 days ago Close. It means there's no persistent infra charges and you're charged on use. You dont run anything permanently. load replies (1) jwiz|13 days ago Depends if you mean "server" as in piece of metal (or vm), or as in "a daemon"
Stefan-H|13 days ago You might be conflating "cloud" with serverless. Serverless is where developers can focus on code, with little care of the infrastructure it runs on, and is pay-as-you-go. load replies (1)
turtlebits|13 days ago Close. It means there's no persistent infra charges and you're charged on use. You dont run anything permanently. load replies (1)
dsr_|13 days ago
locknitpicker|13 days ago
Not quite. Serverless means you can run a server permanently, but you need pay someone else to manage the infrastructure for you.
Stefan-H|13 days ago
turtlebits|13 days ago
jwiz|13 days ago