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-background<\/code> to the filename like my-function-background.js<\/code>. (You can write in Go also.)<\/li>- This means you can do long-ish running tasks, like spin up a headless browser and scrape some data, process images to build into a PDF and email it, sync data across systems with batch API requests… or anything else that takes a lot longer than 10 seconds to do.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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