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I remember the hoopla about SOAP web services when they were still emerging. Lots of promise, eventually they had their place and now pretty much bygone.

I feel the same about serverless. It just doesn't feel like it's really going to change things in a big way, but seems it will get some traction.

WDYT?

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> Lots of promise, eventually they had their place and now pretty much bygone.

It that really the case or is it an assumption only because we don't find a new blog post or article every few days? The SOAP specification is stable, and the frameworks for building SOAP web services are also "done" and stabilized. There is not very much new stuff to tell about SOAP.

> I feel the same about serverless. It just doesn't feel like it's really going to change things in a big way, but seems it will get some traction.

In my opinion it is only a way to give the cloud provider leverage.

Well, I spent a few months writing a book about serverless, so we have slightly different opinion about serverless haha :)

I like this explanation why serverless looks promising: https://youtu.be/SPsaqiegOP4. I recommend full video, but those few minutes are the important part.

Personally, serverless helps me to build reliable software faster, and it minimizes the amount of time I need to spend setting up the infrastructure. For me it already changed the things big way. It'll not work the same way for everybody, which is fine and expected.

Same with microservices.