Your second point misses an important fact: the Tesla Model S Plaid set a 7:25 Nurburgring lap time, and the Porsche Taycan did it in 7:07. Both of these lap times are faster than many high-performance ICE cars, and close to GT2/3 times which are just below 7:00.
As you might expect, the technology will continue to evolve, too.
Mergent (YC S21 - https://mergent.co) might be precisely what you're looking for in terms of a push-over-HTTP model for background jobs and crons.
You simply define a task using our API and we take care of pushing it to any HTTP endpoint, holding the connection open and using the HTTP status code to determine success/failure, whether or not we should retry, etc.
Ok, I'll bite. We (mergent.co) have looked at similar tools before but ended up managing our own infra. This is primarily because the tools we've found focus on recreating Heroku/similar on our AWS, which doesn't suit our needs.
For example, in addition to traditional applications, we run:
- Kubernetes + Knative
- Apache Pulsar
- ScyllaDB
- Elastic
- Clickhouse (soon)
How would Argonaut help us with our (frankly, painful) infra? We're living in YAML hell over here.
As you might expect, the technology will continue to evolve, too.