> They charge you only when that thing happens and the code runs. That's how App Engine worked in 2008, and it looks like it still works that way: https://clo

> They charge you only when that thing happens and the code runs. That's how App Engine worked in 2008, and it looks like it still works that way: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/pricing 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!