[kemiller]

I'd actually characterize it the other way around: Elixir and Beam give you most of the benefits of serverless with better portability and lower costs.

Also, meta: don't worry too much about where people tell you the industry is heading. 1) They don't actually know, 2) it's much more conservative out there than you might think. Even when new paradigms do gain traction, they pretty much always augment rather than replace, for a good long while at least.