[rcarmo]

I understand where you're coming from, but not everything speaks HTTP or works on a per-request basis, and PaaS services are still cheaper.

I've seen people shoehorning all sorts of batch processing into HTTP (backed by queues or not) and it has tremendous overhead over just having the cores and RAM there in the same place as the data.

I learned that lesson with Google Apps, and never designed anything to rely solely on HTTP ever again.