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As it happens, HTTP adequately provides facilities to build arbitrary
application interfaces (I resist calling them APIs, even though
everyone else does) for server applications that handle requests from
client applications with arbitrary requirements and allowing arbitrary
requests and arbitrary responses as necessary.  Nothing designed by
humans is perfect, but it's pretty good.

But then, I work for a large internet company which designs such
things using such interfaces... HTTP is my hammer. =8^)


On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 01:23:52PM -0700, Ron wrote:
> The term "serverless" has a meaning beyond "no server":

Bah.  I could say it has no meaning, or at best it has different
meanings depending on who is saying it, and in what context, all of
which are unintuitive and unimaginative, and for all of which it is a
misnomer, and the claims made about which may best be described as
"unreliably truthful."  It's marketing gobbledygook.  Just like "the
cloud" before it.

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