I've lived through the genesis of the modern internet, the move from command-line to GUI, dot-matrix, Java's birth, smartphones, .Net's birth, AMPS and GSM, the

I've lived through the genesis of the modern internet, the move from command-line to GUI, dot-matrix, Java's birth, smartphones, .Net's birth, AMPS and GSM, the iPod, NTSC, all the web tech from JavaScript, CSS, MongoDb, Bitcoin, JQuery, Node, to agile, modern JS libraries and of course serverless, and countless others. The result of it all is cynicism. Serverless takes a lot of work to learn and get good at. The benefit is negligible - no more than deploying a "serverless" thing to an existing web server we use for cross-cuting concerns like exception handling, logging and communication. 10 seconds of automated configuration management, another 10 to deploy. The Change Approval Board meeting to rubber stamp the deployment takes longer. The breathless hype machine has and always will be just that - hype. Someone's "new, improved, OMG I found this you must use it now" perspective is a pattern that's older than Gartner's hype cycle (which in itself has no basis in fact). It works well in the startup world, but has virtually no place in a business-critical environment, let alone healthcare, defence, telcos or similar. Little wonder it's adoption has stalled.