Yes it's exactly like FastCGI ... if you make enough requests, then you have a warm process. If you don't, then you may need to warm one up, and wait. So yeah

Yes it's exactly like FastCGI ... if you make enough requests, then you have a warm process. If you don't, then you may need to warm one up, and wait. So yeah I think AWS Lambda and all "serverless" clouds should have been based on an open standard. But TBH FastCGI is not perfect, as I note in my blog post. The real problem is that doing standards is harder than not doing them. It's easier to write a proprietary system. And people aren't incentivized to do that work anymore. (Or really they never were -- the Internet was funded by the US government, and the web came out of CERN ... not out of tech companies) The best we can get is something like a big tightly-coupled Docker thing, and then Red Hat re-implements it with podman.