The personnel and organizations responsible for the collection of the earth fee varied considerably from place to place and changed over time. In Jiangling, for example, as early as 1801 two (government-run) tuju (earth bureaus) were set up in Shashi and Haoxue to collect the earth fee.

On Sunday it would be even more drinking, plus the Times, and the pitiful Jints on TV.

Amazement took the throatiness out of his voice.

Generally, when people think of serverless computing, they tend to think of applications with back-ends that run on third-party services, also described as code running on ephemeral containers. In my experience, many businesses and people who are new to serverless computing will consider serverless applications to be simply “in the cloud.”