serverless

Adjective

1. Based on a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider allocates machine resources on demand.
   • Generally, when people think of serverless computing, they tend to think of applications with back-ends that run on third-party services, also described as code running on ephemeral containers. In my experience, many...
2. Not involving a server; composed only of clients.
   • serverless architecture
   • 2005, Coulouris et al, Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design A group at the University of California, Berkeley, proposed a serverless network file system architecture and developed a prototype implementation.