Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing
It’s also great for vendor lock in and rent extraction. At least in its current iterations. I’m fairly certain Amazon isn’t going to make it easy to run your “serverless” applications on anything but their infrastructure.<p>What would be more interesting would be languages and runtimes that run on the next network that is distributed, peer-to-peer, and able to be trusted. And easier to program for than they are today in their current iteration.<p><i>Edit</i>: which is where I thought the BOOM group was going back in 2012 or so.