The main reason it's significant is because it's cheaper. We'd all[1] rather fling servers running containers all over the place, but leaving those servers runn

The main reason it's significant is because it's cheaper. We'd all[1] rather fling servers running containers all over the place, but leaving those servers running all the time even when nobody is using them is expensive. Serverless stuff means you can just pay per request and they take care of listening for the connection and all that so you just pay for the time your business logic has to run. [1]: I would like to fling servers running containers all over the place, but that might just be because I like building devops rube goldberg machines in my spare time. Some people think coding for lambda (or things like CF Workers) is easier/more fun.