Re:List of Serverless Functions for JAMstack Apps
by splintercell on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @11:36PM
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> It seems to me, it would look an awful lot like a badly organized server application. Kind of like PHP sites were (generally) organized circa 2003.
Isn't this in alignment with the theory that technology is a flat circle.
Redux became the message passing architecture of win32 programming. Java got a huge resurgence in late 2000s when it was discovered that instead of being good for running TV and refrigerators it's actually great for running web servers. How BEAM was discovered to be great for real time web (because we're finally arriving at real time web).
One day we'll go back to writing frontend apps just like late 90s embedded inline JS code used to be. CSS would be inline again. Then monolithic services architecture would be back again, and one day Facebook will introduce the ability to have 'themes' on your profile like MySpace did.
It seems to me, it would look an awful lot like a badly organized server application. Kind of like PHP sites were (generally) organized circa 2003.
Speaking of which, isn't PHP like "OG Severless?" In fact, isn't this a more complicated deployment of what you can do with PHP? I don't even care for PHP, but it seems a lot easier than this, and certainly at least as cheap and easy to deploy.
I'm just at loss what the purpose of this is... or how it isn't reinventing a specific set of wheels that everyone already passed on (or already uses for those specific purposes).