It doesn't always lead anywhere, but it can be useful to revisit old patterns because sometimes there have been enough advances in either speed or logistics to

It doesn't always lead anywhere, but it can be useful to revisit old patterns because sometimes there have been enough advances in either speed or logistics to make them relevant again. Reinvigorated echoes of old ideas spring up all the time and it's fun to see (I'm currently a huge fan of the new SQLite scene and also new uses being found for VMs thanks to Firecracker). Starting up a process is now so trivial, efficient and fast that there are certainly places where a CGI-like approach could scale a long way! Quite a bit of what's been going on in the "serverless" space has parallels, including some of the optimizations made to scale it up.