[gregjor]

To each their own, I guess. I don't see how "serverless" makes any sense when you can set up a cloud instance for a few dollars a month, or free on AWS/GCP/Aurora with their free tiers. If you have even a tiny Raspberry Pi-scale cloud server you can serve APIs or web pages and store JSON files or run SQLite or Redis. And you will pay the same $0 - $7/mo regardless of API requests, unlike the serverless model where cost scales directly with traffic (leading to unpredictable bills every month).

I get that not everyone wants to install packages and SDKs or look up the two or three lines of code needed to save a file to S3. But if you do need real data storage, or everything a real server can provide, I think it's good to know how to do that. I think starting with serverless is like starting with instant microwave meals -- you get stuck with low-quality and high-cost food and never learn how to cook.