“Server” is a long-running process that serves requests. “Serverless” means that your requests are handled by short-lived processes of some kind.
This is just the name for it. If you want to poke holes in the definition I gave, it won’t do any good, because definitions are kinda fuzzy and incomplete to begin with. If you try to argue about what “serverless” means, you’re just going to end up drifting away from the consensus about what words mean. Consensus is the only thing that matters here. Consensus generally won’t be universal—I know people that refuse to accept “literally” as an intensifier—but that is a problem we have to deal with.
This is just the name for it. If you want to poke holes in the definition I gave, it won’t do any good, because definitions are kinda fuzzy and incomplete to begin with. If you try to argue about what “serverless” means, you’re just going to end up drifting away from the consensus about what words mean. Consensus is the only thing that matters here. Consensus generally won’t be universal—I know people that refuse to accept “literally” as an intensifier—but that is a problem we have to deal with.