With the potential of starting a ZeroVM in 5ms, and running it for a very short amount of time, do you see yourselves starting to charge in smaller time increments (ms)?
I work a lot with smallish data, where queries/processing may take 20 minutes or a few hours. Often I can split this work up significantly, but when most places charge by the hour it's rarely worth it. PiCloud are excellent in this area, and Manta looks interesting (but possibly a bit more expensive) but I'm not aware of many others. I love the idea of being able to start, with little overhead, a large number of short lived jobs. Particularly if I can run them locally or my own cluster.
The platform itself produces accounting data with 1 ms accuracy. How to do accounting in a real world public service is another question. But we aim for a very short-lived (10 seconds) but widely horizontally spread (1000 machines) workloads.
Thanks for the reply, this sounds like just the kind of thing I'm interested in, and I'm happy to see more competition in the field of renting machines for short periods. I look forward to seeing this released and giving it a go.
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With the potential of starting a ZeroVM in 5ms, and running it for a very short amount of time, do you see yourselves starting to charge in smaller time increments (ms)?
I work a lot with smallish data, where queries/processing may take 20 minutes or a few hours. Often I can split this work up significantly, but when most places charge by the hour it's rarely worth it. PiCloud are excellent in this area, and Manta looks interesting (but possibly a bit more expensive) but I'm not aware of many others. I love the idea of being able to start, with little overhead, a large number of short lived jobs. Particularly if I can run them locally or my own cluster.
I look forward to seeing more on this.
The platform itself produces accounting data with 1 ms accuracy. How to do accounting in a real world public service is another question. But we aim for a very short-lived (10 seconds) but widely horizontally spread (1000 machines) workloads.
Thanks for the reply, this sounds like just the kind of thing I'm interested in, and I'm happy to see more competition in the field of renting machines for short periods. I look forward to seeing this released and giving it a go.