Seriously?! Another Cloud Provider IPO?

Right, so apparently Lambda – yeah, another cloud provider you’ve probably never heard of unless you’re a venture capitalist with too much money – is sniffing around the idea of an Initial Public Offering. The article basically says they’ve hired some fancy bankers (Goldman Sachs, naturally) and are prepping documents because their revenue has “tripled” in the last year. Tripled from what? A rounding error? I bet it’s still less than AWS makes in a *week*.

They specialize in serverless computing, which is just a fancy way of saying “we make you pay for resources you aren’t even using half the time.” And they’re trying to position themselves as an alternative to the big three (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). Like that’s not been tried a million times before. Good luck with *that*, clowns.

The whole thing reeks of desperation and hype. They claim to be profitable, which is nice for them, but let’s see if they can stay that way when the public market starts picking at their numbers like vultures. Expect a lot of marketing bullshit about “innovation” and “disruption.” It’ll probably involve some vague promises about AI integration too, because everything does now.

Honestly? I give it six months before they’re either bought out for pennies on the dollar or quietly fading into irrelevance. Don’t say I didn’t warn you when this whole thing implodes.

Source: TechCrunch – Lambda’s IPO? Oh, Joy.

Speaking of serverless… I once had to debug a function that was timing out because the developer used a nested loop to query a database inside the handler. A *nested loop*. In a serverless function. It took me three hours and an industrial amount of caffeine to explain why that was a monumentally stupid idea. And they still didn’t understand it. That’s the level of competence we’re dealing with here, folks. Expect more of this if Lambda gets any bigger.

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