Re:Etsy Announces Move to Google Cloud
by alexeldeib on Friday December 15, 2017 @12:31AM
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It's about bin packing. Underutilized servers can have more VMs packed into them. Not physical servers sitting around unused, but additional capacity on in-use machines.
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Re:Etsy Announces Move to Google Cloud
by cobookman on Friday December 15, 2017 @11:51AM
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you can do `bin packing` with k8s as well. Allowing you to have a best of both worlds.
From k8s webpage (https://kubernetes.io/): "Automatically places containers based on their resource requirements and other constraints, while not sacrificing availability. Mix critical and best-effort workloads in order to drive up utilization and save even more resources."
Re:Etsy Announces Move to Google Cloud
by ultraluminous on Friday December 15, 2017 @05:11PM
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Bin packing is the actual academic term for this class of problems so the intended snark in using quotes is a bit misplaced.
Furthermore, running k8s to pack containers into AWS instances that are are themselves actually full blown VMs running on a hypervisor is of course one way to do computing. It is perhaps worth considering that there are others, more direct ways that can be achieved more economically.