Most serverless platforms impose execution time limits ranging from seconds to minutes. This prevents runaway processes and enforces efficient design. Long-running tasks must be broken into smaller chunks or orchestrated via workflows. While limiting at first, it promotes resilience and fault tolerance. Systems become modular and restart-friendly by design.
Time limits force better engineering practices. Inefficient code becomes obvious.
This encourages distributed workflows that recover gracefully from failure.
Serverless functions have strict maximum execution durations.
[AWS Lambda Limits, aws.amazon.com]