But but but ... running real servers requires that grouchy dude with scruffy facial hair and mountain boots. And he expects to be paid an absurd amount of money. I avoid these problems if I just put it in the cloud. </sarcasm>

This is just like when they got rid of secretaries. The work didn't go away, it just got moved to all the peons.

> Most of these startups in Soma could run their product on a single threaded C++ server.

Most could be run on a single threaded Python server.