> A solo software developer can rapidly experiment and test ideas until one starts to scale. In all fairness, this same thing can be done with virtual machine

> A solo software developer can rapidly experiment and test ideas until one starts to scale. In all fairness, this same thing can be done with virtual machines. VMs have been "cattle" for a long while now. "Serverless" just removes the start and stop buttons from your UI. There are still servers and there is still configuration, it's just being done on the conflations of others. What I find interesting is how many people feel the need to justify using whatever it is they are using when others are exercising their right to question whether or not all the tech we've built is "worth it". In many cases, having all this power of the cloud has just removed value from companies as they allow their employees to spin up whatever and leave it running because they don't know any better processes than what has been sold to them by crafty sales and marketing people. How many millions have been "blown" on cloud just to say something is started or running? My observations say "a lot".