The blog post discusses the true essence of serverless computing and the challenges posed by services falsely labeled as serverless. It outlines the core tenets of serverless, which include simplicity, instant start, instant elasticity, and best practices by default, emphasizing that genuine serverless services eliminate the need for configurations, capacity management, and maintenance windows, thereby enhancing developer productivity. The text criticizes services that misrepresent themselves as serverless by imposing provisioned capacity, autoscaling complexities, and maintenance windows, which violate the fundamental principles of serverless. It introduces a "Litmus Test for Serverless" to identify such faux-serverless services, using comparisons between Amazon Neptune Serverless and Amazon DynamoDB On-Demand as examples. The post advocates for accountability among service providers and encourages readers to apply the litmus test to evaluate the authenticity of serverless claims, thereby fostering open discussions about what truly constitutes a serverless service.