I mean, where do we think the functions are executing now? It's not like Ubuntu Server is running Xorg, or has libinput installed, nor have any of those things ever been operational or developmental considerations on any "non-serverless" app.

Or maybe you're in a super cutting edge functions deployment where you're actually deploying microkernels? Seems orthogonal to me, and doesn't seem to address the data locality, etc issues brought up in this article.

There are so many people in this thread saying stuff like "PaaS doesn't allow auto-scaling" and I just don't really know what's going on. It's baffling to me. I guess if all you know is an archaic build process and manual deployment, then it looks great. But I'm willing to bet most of these function platforms bottom out on containers-on-k8s-on-vms anyway.

I am increasingly, increasingly convinced that people don't really need or want "serverless". They want the final step in the build/development process that they thought they were going to get with Docker -- they want to write code and have it running somewhere. I really don't buy that Serverless/Lockin are the right or best way to that future.