What the article author doesn't get: Serverless cloud platforms and APIs are the 21st century equivalent of OS APIs and libraries. They're still maturing, but

What the article author doesn't get: Serverless cloud platforms and APIs are the 21st century equivalent of OS APIs and libraries. They're still maturing, but the abstraction has moved up a level. Most people don't care (and fewer want to) what OS or other low-level stuff is running their code. Today, we're still too focused on what's going on inside the boxes - in the future, more people will realize that the important part that brings value is how the boxes are "plumbed" together. We're already seeing the beginnings of this with serious no-code/low-code platforms, which are ideally suited for these kinds of services environments. (Soon, they won't all be cloud-based, either...)