But lots of times a plastic bucket, even with a leak, is a better tool for the job than an extruder, mold, and warehouse full of polymer.

I had to build a parallel CI pipeline once that was like: when this, run a FaaS function, then when this that or whipesnicket, run one of these other functions, then run this thing that moves some things from here to there and posts the results to zulip chat.

I literally spent 2 hours in AWS docs, got to "ugh, don't wanna know this, unlikely to use again" and then spent one hour in the serverless docs building it that way, and then it ran for 4 years. (Last year, I finally replaced it with GitHub Actions.)

Admittedly this wasn't a profound and moving tale of heroic ops or anything, but the Serverless framework proved to be pretty nifty for my use case. (Haven't used it since, but would again in a similar circumstance.)