In the past decade or so, investments in hardware and innovations in the tools that optimize hardware have paid off. Hardware has become a commodity. The era of expensive computational assets is long gone. With the advent and adoption of virtualization, renting hardware is a walk in the park, and is often the only option for companies that do not have the resources or inclination to bootstrap an on-premise infrastructure.
With the sky being the limit for current hardware capabilities, the onus is on software to catch up and leverage this. Serverless is the latest checkpoint in this evolution. Commoditized hardware and rapidly commoditizing allied software tooling enables companies to further reduce their operational ...
