Setting a new world record in CloudSort with Apache Spark

Re:Setting a new world record in CloudSort with Apache Spark by rxin on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @09:10PM (#12964004)

I'd argue this (performance/cost) is exactly the right metric to measure. One of the biggest benefits of the cloud is elasticity. In on-premise world, one would have to provision based on peak demand, and most of the time the cluster utilization rate is pretty low.

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Re:Setting a new world record in CloudSort with Apache Spark by flukus on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @09:24PM (#12964045)

But it's cost for every iteration for cloud vs a once off cost for on premise. It doesn't take very long for on premise to get cheaper.

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Re:Setting a new world record in CloudSort with Apache Spark by rxin on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @09:52PM (#12964163)

The one-off cost is very high, and there is higher ongoing maintenance cost as well. Most organizations are moving to the cloud, because it in general makes more economic sense.

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Re:Setting a new world record in CloudSort with Apache Spark by flukus on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @10:55PM (#12964420)

I'm really not seeing most organizations moving to the cloud. It only makes sense economically for the smallest companies/organisations that can't afford maintenance costs. Most bigger ones won't risk the loss of their core data and a lot can't go to the cloud for various reasons like legality, speed and redundancy.

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Re:Setting a new world record in CloudSort with Apache Spark by rxin on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @11:48PM (#12964602)

Take a look at the customers featured at reinvent. Computing as "utility" is the future, and the future is arriving fast.

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