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So this is different from running docker containers on heroku because heroku has 1 to n autoscaling but not 0 to n?

What are the other fundamental differences?

It's actually pretty similar to the Heroku free tier dyno "sleep" till there's a trigger, but it's stateless.

Different pricing, different ways of conceptualizing but from a user perspective that's a pretty good comparison.

> it's stateless.

Can we use "stateless" instead of "severless"? That seems like a better term.

Should be very easy for heroku to add serverless containers then. Their cold-starts for their free tier is a few seconds and works quite well.

My running joke has been that a FaaS is a PaaS with the round bit of "P" rubbed out.

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