The time-sharing computers of the 1970s meant operators could submit a job and get the results at some point in the future. Under the guise of "serverless", everything old is new again. AWS Lambda reinvented the idea of submitting work to a supercomputer only to receive the results later on, asynchronously. I liked that approach so much that in 2016 I wrote a prototype to unlock the idea of functions but for your own infrastructure. It's now known as OpenFaaS and has over 30k GitHub stars, over ...