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.
I’d even go further with Azure Functions and say that running them locally is really simple. Of all the issues I’ve had with them, running them locally was never an issue.