Escape the cloud database trap with serverless

The pay-go cloud model makes total sense for orgs of all sizes. Even the term "serverless database" is a mind bender for me, but if it can scale that quickly, and reliably, and fluidly (it's a word now), it sounds exciting.

Does this terminology make sense to anyone else? So far as I can see, the article suggests that one should "escape the cloud database trap" by using a "serverless cloud database". "Cloud", so far as I've ever been aware, just means "somebody else's server"; so in what way can it be meaningful to say that such an architecture could ever be "serverless"?

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Looking forward to seeing where you guys go with this. Good luck!

Is it possible to run FaunaDB locally (in development mode)?<p>Is it open source?

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