That's true. And that's one of the things that a FaaS/PaaS gives you. Heroku's 24 time limit is perfect for eliminating the problems with starting the environme

That's true. And that's one of the things that a FaaS/PaaS gives you. Heroku's 24 time limit is perfect for eliminating the problems with starting the environment for each request, but still completely absolves the client from doing the grunt OS maintenance.