The TL;DR
Serverless is a catch-all term for apps and products that don’t require you to manage your own servers.
Every app runs on a set of servers somewhere, and there’s high overhead involved in managing them
Serverless just means that your app – or the infrastructure you pay for – doesn’t require server management
In practice, people use the term to ref…
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