I agree! It's a stupid buzzword and I don't like it either. Problem is, I tested a couple titles with friends and this is the one which they immediately understood. Maybe I should've gone with your idea - FaaS is a good description.

But yeah, you're right. It's just someone else's server, which for the purposes of my tutorial means you can host a simple, stateless function for free, i.e. no Linux box to provision, no SSH, no uptime monitoring, etc.

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Ugh, there is no, "serverless." There's always a server, it's just someone else's server. I wish that buzzword would cease existing. Function as a Service is more truthful.