Mh, we've been looking at e.g. OpenFaaS to implement rare or slow and resource intensive processes as functions so they don't have to run all the time. Think of

Mh, we've been looking at e.g. OpenFaaS to implement rare or slow and resource intensive processes as functions so they don't have to run all the time. Think of customer provisioning, larger data exports, model trainings and such things. Here, a slow startup might add a few seconds to a few minute long process. But our outcome is: Outside of really heavyweight processes like model trainings, it's a lot of infrastructural effort to run something like this on our own systems, opposed to just sticking that code into a rarely called REST endpoint in some application we're already running anyway. We'd need a lot more volume of somewhat rarely executed tasks to make it worth running it.