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In a way we kind of moved back to CGI, it just happens we call it serveless nowadays. :)

If I don't invoke the serverless for a whole day, I don't have to pay for it.

Irony is that it's most useful for hobby projects. In production I'd not use it.

Oh, we get to use it a lot, welcome to MACH architecture, with endpoints for webhooks and MCP tools.

That is one way many agencies have reduced their delivery teams, a bunch of cloud products tied together, and infrastructure is someone's else fault.

Yes, I was going to say that too. Modern "serverless" is basically this - spawning a script to handle a request on-demand.

And because of serverless, there are frameworks optimized for low startup time, and those frameworks would probably work pretty well for CGI too.