Create background process in Heroku without using worker

Question

My web application will need to execute 1 specific function every 1 hour. Does it have anyway to deploy it into Heroku without using worker (I'm using Python)?

Answer 1

Use the Heroku scheduler addon to trigger your function every hour, it's free and it doesn't require a dedicated worker.

You just need to make sure it's callable from a single file (i.e. python do_something.py)