As I wrote in another comment, there is a world of software outside of web development. And I'm not especially fearful of being left behind. I spend almost all my free time learning new things. But I wouldn't really jump at the opportunity of learning something that locks me into a single company's services. Learning the fundamentals of computers seems like a much better use of my time.
A lot of concepts that apply to serverless and other cloud computing services are applicable across providers as well. Even if the details are different.
I would liken it to learning programming languages. Learning new languages isn't considered "locking you into a language". It's even widely considered beneficial because it makes learning more languages even easier and brings new perspectives to the table.
Edit: An interesting example. Learning something enough to know when NOT to use it is gaining a valuable skill that's worth $$ to employers.
> I would liken it to learning programming languages. Learning new languages isn't considered "locking you into a language". It's even widely considered beneficial because it makes learning more languages even easier and brings new perspectives to the table.
Partly true, if you don't plan on using the language. But this seems only true, because the majority of programming languages today are open source and portable across different platforms. On the other hand, some time ago C# implied .Net Framework and that would lock you into the Microsoft+Windows ecosystem.
In the same way, using SQL that's understood only by PostgreSQL isn't going to be as much painful as using something specific to Oracle databases when the company behind it goes haywire as Oracle did with Java (if not for OpenJDK).
Because after you have “learned the fundamentals” it takes a lot longer to “learn” how to write a function that takes in two parameters, zip it up with all of your dependencies and upload it....
