The word means less than you think, which is good news.
Where Code Actually Runs
Servers, containers, serverless, the edge, and which of those words mean anything.
The hosting landscape is a wall of jargon protecting about four real ideas. This course names the ideas, explains what each one is buying you, and shows why "it works locally" is such a common sentence.
Start the first lesson0/4 lessons read
By the end you can
- Explain what a server is without using the word server
- Say what serverless actually removes, and what it costs
- Understand why geography shows up in your latency numbers
- Know why environments differ and what to do about it
Lessons
Three levels of "how much of this do I want to be responsible for".
Where your code sits relative to your users and your data is a design decision.
Local, preview, production: three copies of your app that are never quite identical.