Around 2016, the term "serverless functions" started to take off in the tech industry. In short order, it was presented as the undeniable future of infrastructure. It's the ultimate solution to redundancy, geographic resilience, load balancing and autoscaling. Never again would we need to patch, tweak or monitor an application.
Yeah I agree with all of that. Architecture is hard and you don’t normally fully understand what you need until you’ve built it the wrong way.