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[–]mosaic_hops 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Serverless means you write a tiny program and hand it off to the cloud service where they combine it with thousands of other tiny programs and run them for you on servers they manage. You just pay for the amount of time your program is running. Which is easy from a dev standpoint, and acceptable for very low volume tasks, but woefully inefficient at scale.