Technically it never went away! FastCGI is still plenty good enough for deploying lots of stuff with PHP. :) And I think the reason people like these new "serve

Technically it never went away! FastCGI is still plenty good enough for deploying lots of stuff with PHP. :) And I think the reason people like these new "serverless" things is exactly because, like CGI, it feels pretty developer oriented. Request goes in -- response comes out. Hard to beat that in a way. The no-management part is the real sell, though.