Pulumi is fantastic, just wish it was more popular honestly. That and how you have to handle async stuff with it feels kinda weird in the era of async await in JS.

But it's wild, our tech stack at the company I'm working at is Typescript all the way down. Frontend, Backend, Infrastructure is all typescript. Our team loves it. We also use serverless. Given the perspective in this thread I'm expecting downvotes but we love that too.

I think serverless is just like everything else. If you implement it poorly it can be slow, expensive, and pointless. If you implement it well it can be cheap, fast, and keep your team lean.