The development of things saddens me. (re: this whole thing about serverless and edge).
It should be that it's becoming easier to have a robust database (or job queue, or full text search, etc) on your premises, not have more and more go to the cloud.
Though it is true that managing your own infrastructure can be challenging, it is not inherently so. One can easily imagine self healing and self managing infrastructure, physical hardware deterioration and replacement aside.
EDIT: I want to clarify that I'm not denouncing the cloud. My point is simply that it should be easier to also manage your own fleet if you so choose. This could mean using VMs, bare metal or what have you. Even managing a fleet of VMs is nightmareish today.
There is some development on that front too. For postgres, check out CrunchyData's postgres operator (https://access.crunchydata.com/documentation/postgres-operat...) where with a single config file you get a HA database with read replica(s), connection pooling via pgbouncer and multiple backup targets via pgbackrest with cloning and point-in-time recovery