Running Heroku background tasks with only 1 web dyno and 0 worker dynos

Question

I have a Python Flask app on Heroku that serves web pages but also allows certain tasks to be launched which I believe would be best structured as background tasks. As such

Answer 1

You should take a look at Heroku Scheduler it will allow you to run a specific task on a scheduled interval such as every 10 minutes. If you already have your worker setup you could add:

heroku run worker