I see a lot of people disagreeing with the overall direction of &quot;less servers, more services&quot;. I totally get it, I used to be one of those people, but I think the shift to &quot;less hassle development&quot; is inevitable.<p>5 years ago people used to debate whether we should use a virtualized server vs. a physical one. You still can see similar discussions but rarely - we all have more or less agreed that using AWS&#x2F;Rackspace&#x2F;etc. is good for a business in majority of use cases.<p>I think 5 years from now we&#x27;ll still be debating servers vs. services, but the prevailing wisdom will be that &quot;services&quot; have won.