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joseph on Aug 21, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Serverless Raspberry Pi Cluster with Docker

If you have to configure a machine, even in code, then you aren't "serverless". To me, serverless means that you do not manage the machines or even have direct access to them.

icebraining on Aug 21, 2017 [–]

What's a machine? :) A dedicated server sure is, but a VPS? An Heroku Dyno? What's the line?

monkmartinez on Aug 21, 2017 | [–]

> What's a machine?

I would say "machine" means the hardware and/or the operating system of the "server" (which is a fancy word for "computer").

The "and/or" part being very important!

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