[some_account]

No, the future is serverless applications in the major cloud providers where every server is abstracted away and things scale automatically.

The reason for this is the enormous cost benefits (its super cheap, you only pay when your code actually runs, no upfront costs, no passive server costs, no overprovision or underprovision of compute resources etc).

[bamboozled]

If you’ve ever used a serverless framework, you’ll know this argument falls apart the second you need to run something for a long period of time, manage complex state or glue services together. There are numerous other details being glossed over.

The servless approach has its place just like everything else, it’s not a panacea though.

[rhlsthrm]

Eventually, it should be abstracted even further into something that looks like Heroku, but deploys your code onto serverless functions or containers depending on how your service needs to run. A nice, modular, microservice backend automatically with zero config.

[solomatov]

IMO, serverless in the future will be just a kind of resource on k8. k8 is not serverless, k8 is a open source AWS.

[gcoda]

Why wait for future? You can deploy openfaas on kubernetes, i belive there is more serverless projects you can deploy on k8s cluster

[solomatov]

I think serverless will be included in the k8 or competing product replacing it out of the box.