Meme reminds us there’s still a server hiding in “serverless” marketing

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The image is divided into two stacked sections. The top section shows a jagged, torn-paper rectangle taped to a tiled wall, with black graffiti-style lettering that reads: “THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A "LIE" IN BELIEVE AN "OVER" IN LOVER AN "END" IN FRIEND AN "US" IN TRUST AND AN "IF" IN LIFE.” The lower section is a clean white strip containing bold text: “AND A "SERVER" IN SERVERLESS.” Visually, the contrast between grimy wall art and crisp caption reinforces the punch-line. Technically, the joke pokes fun at cloud vendors’ “serverless” branding by pointing out that compute nodes still exist - you just don’t manage them directly - echoing common backend, DevOps, and cloud-architecture cynicism

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ServerlessArchitecture Cloud Backend Devops CloudNative AWSLambda

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Serverless: because nothing says “modern architecture” like grepping CloudWatch logs at 3 a.m. for a container you don’t control on a server you’re still paying for

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Serverless: because nothing says “modern architecture” like grepping CloudWatch logs at 3 a.m. for a container you don’t control on a server you’re still paying for
Anonymous

Just like how 'NoSQL' databases still use SQL, 'serverless' still has servers - they're just someone else's problem now, along with the cold start latency, vendor lock-in, and that one Lambda function from 2019 that's costing $3000/month because nobody remembers what it does but everyone's afraid to delete it
Anonymous

Serverless is like saying 'I don't have a car, I just use Uber' - technically true from your perspective, but someone's still maintaining a fleet of vehicles somewhere. The real joke is that we've gone from racking physical servers, to provisioning VMs, to orchestrating containers, to writing Lambda functions... and somehow convinced ourselves we've eliminated servers entirely. Meanwhile, AWS is building data centers the size of small cities to run your 128MB function that executes twice a day
Anonymous

Serverless: where the 'less' is marketing, and the 'server' is the fine print in your multi-region bill
Anonymous

Serverless means no servers you manage - until the VPC, three IAM roles, a NAT gateway bill larger than the app, and a 3am cold start remind you whose metal it really is
Anonymous

Serverless: the servers didn’t disappear - they rebranded as cold starts and now live in your p99 latency and the CFO’s FinOps dashboard
@RiedleroD 5y

- laughter in slaughter - fun in funeral
@emil_wislowski 5y

😂
@NiKryukov 5y

And java in javascript
1. @RiedleroD 5y
  
  and C in C#
2. @RiedleroD 5y
  
  C in javascript also
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  implement minecraft in minecraft
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  there's a C in minecraft as well
@emil_wislowski 5y

C in C#
1. @RiedleroD 5y
  
  beat you to it
  
  @emil_wislowski 5y
  
  yep
@FunnyGuyU 5y

What's in Linux?
1. @RiedleroD 5y
  
  UX
  
  @FunnyGuyU 5y
  
  Linux Is Not UX
  
  @andrewyaroshuk 5y
  
  holy f*ck it deserves "always has been" template
  
  @FunnyGuyU 5y
  
  That's what recursive acronym LINUX stands for: (L)inux (I)s (N)ot (U)ni(X)
  
  @NiKryukov 5y
  
  S(he) be(lie)ve(d)
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  (W)ine (i)s a(n) (e)mulator btw
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  (d)olphin (o)mits (l)esser (p)atches, (h)indering (i)nner (n)uance
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  (O)SS (s)tays (s)ilent
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  then it's just Lin
@NiKryukov 5y

asm in asmr
@emil_wislowski 5y

ass in assembler
@RiedleroD 5y

ALSA in Balsam okay I'm getting lazy now lol
@NiKryukov 5y

C is also acronym for (C)
@FunnyGuyU 5y

Yea, and S in IoT means Secutiry
1. @RiedleroD 5y
  
  I think Secutiry is improtnat tho
  
  @chupasaurus 5y
  
  Vendors of IoT devices don't
@Roman_Millen 5y

"win" in "windows"
1. Deleted Account 5y
  
  in in windows
@FunnyGuyU 5y

I remembered a joke from the mid-2000s: - What is 'Microsoft Works'? - An oxymoron!
@qtsmolcat 5y

And a meow in meowcat
@sylfn 5y

I and me in anime
@RiedleroD 5y

damn
@RiedleroD 5y

mime in mimetype
1. @feskow 5y
  
  Please not the mimes
@RiedleroD 5y

"ea" in "aheago"
1. @sylfn 5y
  
  *ahegao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahegao
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  bravo, you found my deliberate spelling mistake. Well, I wasn't sure how to spell it, but I wanted to make the joke work either way.
@dsmagikswsa 5y

Don’t know why *us in the trust* is in the list. The others is kind of opposite to each other.
1. @sylfn 5y
  
  thats because it's not us but US
  
  @dsmagikswsa 5y
  
  Thanks bro
@Truth_0000 5y

Wire in wireless
@Truth_0000 5y

C in CSS
1. Deleted Account 5y
  
  ss in css
@affirvega 5y

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Meme reminds us there’s still a server hiding in “serverless” marketing

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