The sheer convenience of building with serverless can lead developers to resurrect the dreaded spaghetti code of monolithic architectures.

Yes, he said, code transpilers, or translators, have existed for decades, but these older systems translate spaghetti Cobol into spaghetti Java.

“Spaghetti code” Cobol is out of sight and mind when we transfer money from savings to checking, but it is critical for banks’ day-to-day operations.