i’m a cranky old guy but so much serverless tech shit i read today is just a recapitulation of ideas i was teaching as “enterprise java beans” two decades ago, except then the organization would control the app server rather than ceding it to some oligopoly cloud.

— Steve Randy Waldman (@interfluidity) August 29, 2021

That’s it right there. Serverless is a diminished and mindless redo of very old ideas, misunderstood and repackaged poorly by those too young and inexperienced to understand the problems we were trying to solve back then or the problems they should be attempting to solve now.

Just a huge cock-up all around by people too smart to do anything useful. “Smart.”