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Re:Zerg: Boot a VM instance per request, all in under 250 ms by regularfry on Thursday December 28, 2017 @03:25AM (#16020967)
The point is that you don't need the added complexity of a worker pool. It's another thing to break, so why bother?
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Re:Zerg: Boot a VM instance per request, all in under 250 ms by michaelmior on Thursday December 28, 2017 @03:49AM (#16021024)
Even 250ms latency to boot is significant. Especially if you're processing thousands of requests per second.
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Re:Zerg: Boot a VM instance per request, all in under 250 ms by NegativeLatency on Thursday December 28, 2017 @03:52AM (#16021031)
Or if you are processing more than 4 per core per second.
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Re:Zerg: Boot a VM instance per request, all in under 250 ms by imtringued on Thursday December 28, 2017 @05:35AM (#16021331)
Threads take milliseconds to start yet we still use thread pools.
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