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A news organisation's publishing pipeline runs rarely during quiet periods and intensely around major events, performing image processing, rendering and distribution. Where does serverless fit, and where would it be a mistake?

A serverless GPU platform has workloads with very expensive startup costs. How should predictive scaling, prewarming, scheduled capacity, autoscaling and queue-based smoothing be compared?

A spike causes a function to fan out to 5000 concurrent executions. The database's connection limit is exhausted and everything fails. What are your options?

A team is choosing between serverless functions and long-running containers for a new workload. What evidence should drive the decision, and which arguments on both sides are usually wrong?