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AI-generatedAssessing Express Middleware Overhead Impact on Low‑Traffic Serverless Costs
Goal Determine how Express’s middleware traversal and initialization affect compute spend when an API receives fewer than 100 requests per day on serverless platforms. Constraints & Uncertainty The workload is sporadic, so cold‑starts dominate; providers charge primarily for billed duration, not invocation count. Express adds 1–3 ms per request from midd
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