I have done both, for many years. I hate managing a server, unless it's running a DB, relay, or other long-running service. For most my backend work, it's "Pl

I have done both, for many years. I hate managing a server, unless it's running a DB, relay, or other long-running service. For most my backend work, it's "Please calculate this", and that fits so well into a lambda I don't understand why people hate it so much. Zero maintenance, zero costs until used, much less security to manage, etc. It all works very well for me. I still run all kinds of stuff on a linux server, but the comment seems a little gatekeepy. There's nothing strictly better (or even simpler) about running on a server.