The author advocates "serverless" from the get-go because a "single server is not enough for anything non-trivial these days". I completely disagree. Servers a

The author advocates "serverless" from the get-go because a "single server is not enough for anything non-trivial these days". I completely disagree. Servers are beefier than ever and scaling up has never been cheaper. Look at how StackOverflow operates: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-architecture-2016-edition/ https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar... They have 4 SQL servers that handle 500 million queries per day. 125 million queries per server. There are a lot of apps that can get by with less than 125 million queries per day :)