Similarly, you can compile ffmpeg on Lambda, in 0.5 minutes, for 9 cents.[1] Versus 10 min on one core, for ~free. And while -j200 of ffmpeg is nice, -j1000 o

Similarly, you can compile ffmpeg on Lambda, in 0.5 minutes, for 9 cents.[1] Versus 10 min on one core, for ~free. And while -j200 of ffmpeg is nice, -j1000 of the linux kernel is... wow, like seeing the future. [1] demo in a talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9qqSZAny3I&t=55m15s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9qqSZAny3I&t=55m15s (the actual run (sans uploading) is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9qqSZAny3I&t=1h2m58s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9qqSZAny3I&t=1h2m58s ); code: https://github.com/StanfordSNR/gg https://github.com/StanfordSNR/gg ; some slides (page 24): http://www.serverlesscomputing.org/wosc2/presentations/s2-wosc-slides.pdf http://www.serverlesscomputing.org/wosc2/presentations/s2-wo...