@noah I think this might be a problem of the stupid "serverless" cloud buzzword. That's what it's called when people make an app that's not running until a request comes in for it, then it's launched on-demand. It's "serverless" because it doesn't have an allocated virtual machine sitting there all the time waiting to do something.
Realistically that just means it's not "serverless" it's "on-demand application containers", but buzzwords will be buzzwords.
This is need what it means. Main reason for this continuesly running server cost money so on demand model is cheaper.
Lunched on damand is also not quite right. Since there is no server to lunch on damand. Rather a bit of finickly thing where your code is executed as task huge everything sever. This generally dosn't mean much a business types usually just see "serverless = cheaper".
Idk, you can look into technical detals of stuff like "Azure durable funcion" for some madness, but really, at lest it's not block chain
@asrael@noah@GreenFlame and it's not even cheaper at scale. A vm or physical server will just max out at some point and can't handle more, giving you a very easy cap on network and service costs. "Serverless" meanwhile automatically scales and just increases in cost without any automatic cap. If someone wants to bankrupt a company, it's a lot easier to do with one that uses "serverless" for their infrastructure over one using VMs