This is a challenging trend and it takes a bit of thinking to understand how it would work and what the implications are. In a sentence: "Cloud apps are moving into a serverless world." What this means is that these apps will be stored on, and run on, individual devices - your computer, your phone, whatever. But more: "The monolithic application built on Ruby on Rails, Python and Django, or other Web app frameworks is giving way to a distributed system spread across a number of applications, processes and data stores. It's no longer about building a 'Web app.' It's about building a distributed system of loosely coupled components in the cloud." That doesn't mean there are no servers - rather, it means that servers are simply sources of data - JSON objects, for example - that are manipulated by these distributed apps. (It's what I wanted for PLE - but oh my, try getting people raised on J2EE to comprehend that).
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