Serverless is a somewhat unhelpfully misleading term for "highly scalable stateless code". All the times I've seen serverless stuff work really well it was workloads that were usually zero but occasionally 30k/sec without warning. I've run a company with that kind of workload and serverless stuff would have saved us a ton of money. Publishing to the [npm] registry could be done as a serverless app but there's little benefit because we do not get huge spikes in publishing. We get huge spikes in downloads but serverless isn't useful there because it's a read-only case and very little processing is done. Serverless is a great solution to one type of problem. It's very seldom the case that you can convert all your problems into that shape.
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