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Ben Thompson of Stratechery precisely wrote about this last week: >Given this week’s theme, though, I wanted to focus on AWS: revenue was up 46%, and while tha

by lleims 8y ago

Ben Thompson of Stratechery precisely wrote about this last week: >Given this week’s theme, though, I wanted to focus on AWS: revenue was up 46%, and while that may be lower than Azure in percentage terms, it is almost certainly higher in absolute terms. AWS had $6.7 billion in revenue last quarter, while Microsoft’s entire Server Products and Cloud Services — the majority of which remains on-premises — was $5.7 billion. Microsoft of course has other cloud revenue, including Office 365 and Dynamics 365; those are SaaS products though and generally don’t compete with AWS. https://stratechery.com/2018/ibm-red-hat-follow-up-microsofts-earnings-amazons-earnings/ https://stratechery.com/2018/ibm-red-hat-follow-up-microsoft...

browsercoin 8y ago
wonder how much of those were attributed to Serverless revenues....probably negligible. 2018 is almost over and I still don't know if I should go fully serverless, more importantly, which cloud vendor has fixed the "cold startup time" for serverless functions. Google seems quite promising but still no recent study has been done on this. Would somebody like to see a test on this done? I've been wanting a straight up answer for a long time but hard to find a consensus, seems to be all over the place.
- jacques_chester 8y ago
  > which cloud vendor has fixed the "cold startup time" for serverless functions. I'm interested in this problem area, so I would be interested in your definition of fixed.
  - browsercoin 8y ago
    no warm up period despite sporadic use.
    - jacques_chester 8y ago
      It will depend a lot on "sporadic". The dominant factor is where your workload sits in the warmth hierarchy. RAM and disk space are limited, so less-frequent workloads will eventually be evicted from worker nodes.
- Aeolun 8y ago
  It seems to me that any vendor could solve this for the price of around 24 requests a day...
- discordance 8y ago
  Someone measured serverless cold startup time a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17949694 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17949694

by lleims 8y ago

browsercoin 8y ago

wonder how much of those were attributed to Serverless revenues....probably negligible. 2018 is almost over and I still don't know if I should go fully serverless, more importantly, which cloud vendor has fixed the "cold startup time" for serverless functions. Google seems quite promising but still no recent study has been done on this. Would somebody like to see a test on this done? I've been wanting a straight up answer for a long time but hard to find a consensus, seems to be all over the place.

jacques_chester 8y ago
> which cloud vendor has fixed the "cold startup time" for serverless functions. I'm interested in this problem area, so I would be interested in your definition of fixed.
- browsercoin 8y ago
  no warm up period despite sporadic use.
  - jacques_chester 8y ago
    It will depend a lot on "sporadic". The dominant factor is where your workload sits in the warmth hierarchy. RAM and disk space are limited, so less-frequent workloads will eventually be evicted from worker nodes.
Aeolun 8y ago
It seems to me that any vendor could solve this for the price of around 24 requests a day...
discordance 8y ago
Someone measured serverless cold startup time a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17949694 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17949694