Yesssss. Right now I have a cron that hits my app every minute to keep it warm. However even with that I see cold starts every now and then. This removed that problem.
It’s so surprising that AWS and Azure don’t have an equivalent to GCP cloud run.
Being able to run a container on demand with a custom image with whatever language and dependencies you want is amazing.
I’ve spun up browsers for snapshotting and seeing a page like a real browser. Cloud run scale from 0 is absolutely magical.
This is what serverless ought to be. Cloud run + firestore makes it possible to build pretty scalable apps with little effort and pretty cheap to run.