Competition from containers

Containers are another exciting paradigm, providing new ways to develop modern systems. They tend to solve some of the issues of serverless, like limitless scaling, flexibility, control, and testability, but at the cost of maintainability. The adoption of Docker and Kubernetes has been on the rise, and has yielded many success stories.

There will be a time when the concepts of serverless and containers will merge and create a hybrid paradigm, leveraging the best of both worlds. It is indeed an exciting time.