I don't know what they put in the water in Poznan, but it sure isn't servers. https://t.co/NFe22wvqlU pic.twitter.com/ajVHBKIYDQ — Zack Kanter (@zackkanter) January 4, 2021 Other than “robot clams,” Poznań (the city where I live) is not a particularly special place by any objective measure — and I say this with all the love in the world. Sure, it’s a special place to me — it’s my home, I’ve been living here for 9 years now: my kids were born here, we have friends here, we know where to shop, we know where the good restaurants are, we live happily and comfortably.

I only heard the term “GoLD stack” a few weeks ago. As far as I’ve been able to trace it back, it was coined in a tweet (of course) by Santiago Martinez Q. Introducing the GoLD Stack: GoLang + Lambda + DynamoDB. — Santiago M. (@SocialQui) June 7, 2020 It stuck with me for two reasons: It’s a short, catchy name. It subtly alludes to being a silver bullet (which we all know doesn’t exist, but I still romanticize about).

Ceci n’est pas une serveur There’s two common “w” questions around serverless: the first one is “WHAT IS IT?” because, if you’re anything like me, your first response to this term was that it sounded more like link-bait than actual technology. I’ll get to my definition of serverless in a bit (because I’m sure what you’re really waiting for is definition #2323 of serverless) — but what I really want to get into in this article is the second “w” question: “Why!