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I really don't understand spinning up a whole pod just for a request Wouldn't it be cheaper to just keep a pod up with a service running? If scaleability is a
by sebstefan 2y ago
I really don't understand spinning up a whole pod just for a request
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just keep a pod up with a service running?
If scaleability is an issue just plop a load balancer in front of it and scale them up with load but surely you can't need a whole pod for every single one of those millions of requests right?
> Checkly is a synthetic monitoring tool that lets teams monitor their API’s and sites continually, and find problems faster.
>With some users sending *millions of request a day*, that 300ms added up to massive overall compute savings
No shit, right?
- crummy 2y agoThe article said they had to do a bunch of cleanup between requests when it was handled by one service. Which surprised me but these requests must be doing more than just HTTP requests I guess.
- c0brac0bra 2y agoYea they do E2E checks with playwright as well, among other things. A bunch of stuff could get cached from those checks I suppose, especially if it's user-written code.