As a CTO, Michael Rispoli of Cause of a Kind has adopted a serverless stack for their web development projects in 2023, recommending it for most greenfield projects unless there's a special use case. He uses Next.js with TypeScript as the gold standard for deployment, hosting on Vercel and using Cloudinary for image storage. Fauna is his preferred data layer due to its NoSQL database capabilities, automated backups, global distribution, and no data loss advantages. Rispoli praises Fauna's flexibility in managing roles and permissions, reducing cognitive load, and optimizing queries. He notes that Fauna has helped reduce the need for manual intervention in data manipulation and allows developers to focus on solving business problems. Rispoli also shares his experience with scaling serverless technologies, mentioning a project like VeeFriends game that handled millions of reads and writes without issues. In comparison to DynamoDB, Fauna offers an easier approach to addressing data access patterns, making it more suitable for agile development environments. Rispoli advocates for using Fauna due to its ease of use, integration with other systems, multi-tenancy capabilities, and reduced cognitive overhead.