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>[serverless computing] closely parallels past advances in programmer productivity, such as the transition from assembly language to high-level programming languages

Is this serious? The author seems to imply that we can just abstract away the entire internet in the same way we abstracted away copper wires.

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But we did, didn't we? How is modern serverless different from shared LAMP hostings of the past?

Shared lamp hosting didn’t give you the security, scalability or isolation that lambda gives you.

The implementation was lacking, but the concept is nearly identical.

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