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Well, if you look at how we've done things over the years: - We used to have our own machines in our own data centers - Then we started renting machines in data centers - We then moved to the cloud model where we would get compute capacity on demand. But the minimum unit was an hour - But what if you could deploy your code and you were only charged for the compute and memory you take for the fulfillment of that reque…
then why is it something new? Isn't this what google appengine / heroku has been doing for years ?
One comparison I've heard is: can the platform spin up a new instance on demand in under 100ms? AWS Lambda can.