Zappa, a framework for running “server-less” Python Web applications ... still is a machine returning the HTTP response to the client,” Jones said in the blog post.

Python web applications have long adhered to the Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) standard, which describes how they talk to web servers. WSGI, originally introduced in 2003 and updated in 2010 ...

“We were growing exponentially, so our server cost was ... is targeting web applications specifically. While there are a lot of tools for speeding up Python code – such as ‘rival’ Pyton ...