A dictionary of modern lifeOriginal definitions · Illustrated satire
Lucifer’s Lexicon

Modern life, properly defined.

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SERVERLESS

adj.Possessing servers in quantities sufficient to make their existence somebody else's concern.

A hand-drawn satirical comic showing Lucifer selling an empty serverless plinth while a curtain barely conceals a warehouse full of server racks and a recurring invoice.
The illustrated dictionary SERVERLESS
A connected train of thought

  1. Cloud & Infrastructure

    CLOUD n.

    Someone else's computer, made mysterious enough to justify recurring payment.

  2. Cloud & Infrastructure

    KUBERNETES n.

    A system for arranging containers so that nobody knows where the application is.

  3. Cloud & Infrastructure

    FINOPS n.

    The ceremony by which a company gives its cloud waste a dashboard, a cost centre and an owner, thereby making it respectable.

  4. Software Engineering

    MICROSERVICE n.

    A small application distinguished by requiring a network call to perform what was once a function.