There’s no sure-fire way to tell whether or not serverless tech is going to grow or even be around next year. Every post-apocalyptic movie has thought me that technology is the first thing to go after a catastrophic event happens. And if that happens we’ll have to return to some ancient tech like ** knock on wood ** containers.

In 2008, Netflix was struck by a disaster. A fast-growing global streaming service was well on its way to transform the entertainment industry when the management faced a problem exposed by a data center failure. Even though it was a single issue, it shut the entire service down, depriving the company of millions in profits and effectively ending the shipments of DVDs (they were still a thing in 2008).

I’ve spent a lot of time with the development community over the years but every time I get to talk to people in the serverless community I’m constantly surprised by the passion and the general excitement over this technology. Below is one of the latest of said topics and I wanted to share it with you.