Zerg: Boot a VM instance per request, all in under 250 ms

Re:Zerg: Boot a VM instance per request, all in under 250 ms by anilgulecha on Thursday December 28, 2017 @02:31AM (#16020848)

This is the future of computing/software -- pure commodity of CPU+memory. Applications that build on top of these granular interfaces will largely the next wave of successful architectures.

I'm thinking of building something here for static sites as an open source project/spec. If anyone is interested in bouncing ideas on this, please ping me via email (in profile).

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Re:Zerg: Boot a VM instance per request, all in under 250 ms by dcow on Thursday December 28, 2017 @07:30AM (#16021666)

I agree with your first paragraph. But why would this provide any benefit for a static site where no compute is needed (or all compute is client side)?

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Re:Zerg: Boot a VM instance per request, all in under 250 ms by anilgulecha on Thursday December 28, 2017 @10:04AM (#16022320)

My bad -- I meant static sites with one additional functionality that all static sites try to outsource: comments.

(it would no longer be strictly static, but the idea is to decouple site from hosting/compute, so it would be easy to port a static/dynamic site between providers at the switch of a DNS entry).

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