Architecture · 2015–2024 · Platform Wars

Serverless-first

Functions as the unit of deploy. Brilliant for spikes and glue; awkward as a whole product architecture.

How Serverless-first mutated

Serverless mutated ops by killing idle servers for event-shaped workloads. Serverless-first as a default architecture faded; Lambda-as-glue persists. Cold starts, vendor limits, and distributed debugging tax real products. Useful tool; silly religion.

cloud functions ops

Patterns

Silver-bullet architecture

2017–now

Platform Wars

Part of the Platform Wars era (2017–now).

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Related

Platform · 2014–now

Kubernetes

Container orchestration that became the cloud's OS. Overkill for many; unavoidable for many others.

Architecture · 2016–2024

Jamstack

Pre-render + CDN + APIs. The brand cooled; the pattern (static where possible) stuck.

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