> Moreover, the serverless stuff is considerably easier to configure and operate than a VM. Yep - and to be 100% candid on my current project I'm running 100%

> Moreover, the serverless stuff is considerably easier to configure and operate than a VM. Yep - and to be 100% candid on my current project I'm running 100% with GCP Functions, AppEngine Task Queues, and Firestore for persistence. I'm also AWS certified and have worked as a DevOps engineer in a PCI-regulated environment leveraging things like DyanmoDB, Lambda, etc. Cool part about running that way is my current billing is near zilch. Woo! Totally on-board with what you're saying... literally living it now =) I'm just saying that there's a ton of ways to skin a cat. And, personally I wouldn't paint with as large of a brush to say "serverless stuff is considerably easier to configure and operate than a VM." A lot of times this rings true, but I anecdotally wouldn't say it is always the case. I'm being pedantic, but I'm also trying to make a case that not always do cloud design patterns/"best-practices" make sense.