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- More serverless platforms with more heterogeneity. Each one will be better at certain things. fly.io seems to be specializing on computing at the edge (networking). Others will be better at GPU computation; others will have different types of storage and databases.

- More people using multiple clouds. Because putting all your eggs in Amazon's will start to be less acceptable, for cost reasons and lock-in reasons. Kubernetes was supposed to be a neutral interface but I don't think that has panned out. I'm curious if anyone actually uses Kubernetes in a cloud-portable way.

- Less reliance on cloud SDKs and cloud-specific features, and more open source tools. Less reliance on Docker (which is rightly being refactored away.) I hope to do something with Oil here: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/04/build-ci-comments.html .

- In case it needs to be said: more usage of the cloud. It does make sense to offload things rather than host your own, but right now it's still in an awkward state.

Good thread from a few months ago about problems with serverless dev tools: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25482410

Good list of obstacles and use cases for serverless: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03383

[chubot]

As an addendum to the specialization thing, I think that Snapchat was built on Google App Engine basically because it happened to have a really good XMPP gateway or something like that? If anyone has details I'd be interested