I'm not buying it, Google Cloud just moved to node 8 earlier this year as the post says, but now it's node 10. It's just not good tech, it's unnecessary lock-in. Docker on anything is better, this is similar: https://zeit.co/blog/serverless-docker
It’s wonderful tech that has saved us thousands a month. The lock in is very little as it’s running a JS function. We’ve written our functions so that the export to the GC function merely passes in arguments to another function that is required. We could move to AWS, Zeit, or anywhere else with little friction.
