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In his hypothetical system with queues and tasks, I wonder how much resources are being wasted on the management overhead (receiving tasks from the network, scheduling functions, the cold start of the Azure function, etc) compared to a boring solution in a cron on a high-performance bare-metal machine costing a fraction of his solution?



Yip, exactly! If anything it's a waste of energy right. A "greener" solution is the simpler architecture :D




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