As Gibson said, "The future is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed". And in IT, sometimes the future takes a long nap. I wouldn't be too surpris

As Gibson said, "The future is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed". And in IT, sometimes the future takes a long nap. I wouldn't be too surprised if e.g. descendants of Linda spaces get re-discovered because external circumstances favor that model. Although with FaaS, I don't see anything particularly new from a development perspective. It's, well, functions. Most of the time they aren't communicating in any kind of novel way, and often they're doing the decade-old stuff of reading files and slurping databases. The abstraction being more on the operational side of things this time. Not that I'm complaining or doing the "it's just CGI" dance. Compared to other "cloudy" tech, there's actually potential for simplifying things and not just simulated VAX computers with more effort…