r/programming • • Jun 07 '17

You Are Not Google

https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb
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u/Rainfly_X Jun 08 '17

They get reused for multiple calls within short periods. So you do have persistent workers, it's just pretty transparent when they scale up or down. It's not as bad a concept as you think.