#Serverless is a somewhat unhelpfully misleading term for "highly scalable stateless code"
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Would you consider the average rails app stateless? They can be, obviously, but usually I consider them rely on persistent sessions.
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Definitely not. They use signed cookies (with userid) and out-of-process storage for user information.
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A major diff between rails and java apps of the day was that java apps typically required sticky sessions and rails didn't.
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I feel like sticky sessions were key to understanding what “shared nothing” pushed back against
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I wouldn’t even say ‘stateless’ as much as ‘shared-nothing architecture’
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I like this refinement of the definition.
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"Shared nothing" is implicit in the "highly scalable" for me but that should be explicit.
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Rails apps were explicitly described as "shared nothing" architectures back when I was working on rails.
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By calling serverless highly scalable I did not mean to imply that former web apps do not scale :-)
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i’d guess that JS’s success in serverless is due more to the ability to embed and sandbox it, which makes life easier for hosting providers
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Sandbox in what sense?
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