Air Traffic Control Scaleway Ep.4

Unmanned Missions: Serverless Functions and Containers on Scaleway “Thunderbird 3 can reach Space Station Alpha without a human crew aboard. The mission executes, the payload is delivered, and the vehicle returns — all without a pilot in the seat. That is the principle behind every unmanned probe International Rescue has ever launched.” — Brains, Thunderbird Island Research Division Welcome back to the Scaleway Air Traffic Control Centre . In Episode 2, we launched a crewed aircraft — a full Compute Instance that required a pilot, an SSH key, and a standing security perimeter. In this episode, we go unmanned. Serverless means no server to provision, no OS to patch, no idle compute to pay for. You supply the code or the container image; the platform handles everything else. Your function executes on demand and disappears when it is done — like a probe that launches, completes its mission, and vacates the runway in seconds. Scaleway offers two serverless primitives: Functions (event-driv