Same here. In my formative years I was led to believe you had to use a “real” RDBMS for everything- MySQL or Postgres. Anything else was just a toy not suitable for use in the real world.

I succumbed to the SQLite hype train in 2020 when every other post on HN was about it. I started building things with it. First, small things. Then bigger things.

Now I’m at the point where I default to starting most things with SQLite unless there’s a really good reason. It’s incredible how far SQLite can take you. It feels almost like a cheat code. Wish I had jumped on the train years ago.

When "serverless" just got started and mostly focused on running functions with infinite (and automatic) scalability, the term "Functions-as-a-Service" (FaaS) seemed like a good competitor for a while, but that ship has long sailed.

It's a confusing term, but it's not the first one. We survived "JavaScript", and complaining it's not related to Java at all stopped being fashionable along with flip phones and it's only ever done as a joke[1]. I foresee the same thing would happen for serverless in 10 years, and we'll get tired of complaining that this term sucks.

FWIW, we just have to internalize that serverless means "a service where you don't have to provision and manage your cloud servers and you don't even know how many of them are out there", just we collectively internalized that the HTTP Authorization header is the header responsible for Authentication.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36782761