Apps running in the flexible environment are deployed to virtual machine types that you specify. These virtual machine resources are billed on a per-second basis with a 1 minute minimum usage cost.
This applied to both the web workers and the batch workers
It was "serverless" in 2008!
> spin up a dedicated server (or slice of a server) to run it continuously.
Absolutely NOT true of App Engine in 2008, and I'm pretty sure Heroku in 2008 too!
That's how App Engine worked in 2008, and it looks like it still works that way:
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/pricing
Apps running in the flexible environment are deployed to virtual machine types that you specify. These virtual machine resources are billed on a per-second basis with a 1 minute minimum usage cost.
This applied to both the web workers and the batch workers
It was "serverless" in 2008!
> spin up a dedicated server (or slice of a server) to run it continuously.
Absolutely NOT true of App Engine in 2008, and I'm pretty sure Heroku in 2008 too!