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I've been doing "serverless" on app engine for more than a decade and it handles postgres connections fine without any heroics. There's always instances with s

I've been doing "serverless" on app engine for more than a decade and it handles postgres connections fine without any heroics. There's always instances with state somewhere; it's just a question of how smart your serverless infrastructure is about pooling the instances.

jeremyjacob 4y ago
The “serverless” being referred to in the article is run using V8 isolates, whereas app engine runs full Node.js processes. Although they have limitations like not supporting raw TCP, isolates can start within a couple milliseconds and are much more CPU efficient than standalone processes.