Has serverless computing run out of gas? While some industry observers see signs that serverless computing has stalled, others believe the paradigm is just getting started Credit: Dreamstime Serverless computing offers the promise of applications executed as event-driven compute cycles, whereby your code runs only when triggered by a request. Subscribers to this paradigm can save money by paying only for compute time actually used instead of maintaining a virtual or physical server. Users also are spared from having to manage infrastructure. AWS Lambda, Microsoft Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, and other serverless compute offerings have attracted a lot of attention in recent years. But the serverless revolution may be showing signs of stalling, with some shops not exactly falling all over themselves to adopt the paradigm.