Its just an abstraction though. And it falls apart and becomes full of implement...

manyxcxi · on March 9, 2016

It is, but once you agree on the context it provides, it can be a word that is useful when describing how you plan to deploy some section of code.

We use Lambdas for a bunch of different async work tasks like PDF generation and such. Warm or cold doesn't matter at all for us.

If you're trying the super 'serverless' approach of using AWS API services backed by Lambdas, then yeah, warm/cold will definitely matter.

gravypod · on March 9, 2016

When I think "serverless" I think this: http://unhosted.org/

That describes a model where a web paged is permanently cached in a browser's data. Effectively reducing the server to a binary distribution system.