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"Cloud" = you aren't managing a physical server

"Serveress" = you aren't managing a logical server

If it's helpful think of it as "less servers".

or "servers you don't manage / have to think about"

or "servers you don't control / can't debug / pay extra for"

Just today I’ve heard an explanation: “you pay per request instead of per instance”.

Server-concern-less.

I.e. you don't need to concern yourself with provisioning, nor maintaining, a server as that part of the process has been abstracted away from you.

I think 'stateless' is better jargon that conveys what the servers can/can't do when rolling out a service using them.

You know what he's talking about though, seems like the word did its job fine.

Having had it explained to me later, yes, but when I first heard the term I thought it was a rebranding of standalone desktop applications rather than something that involves servers.

"Nacho server" (not your server) also works.

Sounds better than misleading "serverless". Whoever named it as serverless deserves a Nobel price for confusion.