Back to the ’70s with Serverless.

What’s old is new again. Just as I have been saying.

Microservices have trouble scaling, and they are very complex. Most companies that employ them have no need for them, but the systems and programming languages they employ are sufficiently lacking that this stacking of complexity on top of complexity becomes a necessity.

Micrososervices and the complexity around their tooling reminds me some of where virtualization was 15 years ago, except there doesn’t seem to be any maturation at all. I think this is partly because this area is driven by developers rather than infrastructure people, and developers need that complexity for continued employment.

Serverless is even worse, which is why cloud vendors love it even more than microservices. It means poor performance, poor scaling, and really huge bills for you. This is why It’s! The! Future!