It's a new pattern, so it's only relevant for some use cases. I don't think it's meant to solve every cases: including the case of a long running job.
It's best suited for jobs that can be broken down into tons of small individual computations, or to respond directly to HTTP requests. If you can fit your pipeline / application into that model it's usually beneficial: Instant scaling, retries, reliable etc. Mixed with other concepts like SQS you can build pretty powerful things without having to pay when there's no load.
It's best suited for jobs that can be broken down into tons of small individual computations, or to respond directly to HTTP requests. If you can fit your pipeline / application into that model it's usually beneficial: Instant scaling, retries, reliable etc. Mixed with other concepts like SQS you can build pretty powerful things without having to pay when there's no load.