portkey

Portkey: from REPL to Serverless in one call
cgrand 2018-12-17T09:52:01.086100Z

@viesti > data+compute locality is a good thing I think, avoids shuffling of data. don’t forget the fineprint: • when data is easily shardable (no broad join required) • when you have a good enough idea of data distribution to have balanced shards.

viesti 2018-12-17T09:53:03.086300Z

yeah

viesti 2018-12-17T09:54:24.087800Z

this paper spawned discussion elsewhere too, I skimmed (I have to learn to read papers too, instead of skimming :)) the Pywren paper and was thinking that in what they did, data placement in S3 was a good git for Lambda autoscaling

viesti 2018-12-17T09:54:49.088300Z

there are different problems to which different solutions work well for

viesti 2018-12-17T09:55:09.088800Z

I don’t know if it is good to generally label one approach “the best”

cgrand 2018-12-17T12:05:51.090100Z

simple/definite answers to complex problems are always dubious

viesti 2018-12-17T20:32:43.090300Z

Could this be done with a more data-centric approach: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/boost-your-infrastruc