Yes, that’s an interesting topic, especially given the prevalence of distributed compute nowadays and the rising awareness of cloud costs. In the end, the dist

Yes, that’s an interesting topic, especially given the prevalence of distributed compute nowadays and the rising awareness of cloud costs. In the end, the distribution is not really poisson, of course. So, you might be interested in low pass filtering to elastically scale your provisioned workers. There is quite some theory about this, including sophisticated machine learned models to predict future load. But I digress.