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timojeajea
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timojeajea
4mo ago
From our production stats, a median screenshots capture is 5.7s. Browser-use bills per minute, not per millisecond like lambda does. As is, it's around 2x more expensive than Lambda for our use-case.
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timojeajea
4mo ago
We run a screenshot API (ApiFlash) with Chromium packaged in an AWS Lambda container image instead of Firecracker on EC2. AWS Lambda gives you the isolation and autoscaling for free which is ideal for spiky stateless work like screenshots.
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timojeajea
3y ago
I built a screenshot API called ApiFlash. https://apiflash.com Quite a few of my clients use it to add "always up to date" screenshots to their documentation.
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timojeajea
4y ago
I think you need to try it if you want to understand how it can be useful. I also tend to write as little code as possible. Since I started using Copilot, I don't write more code nor less code. I write the exact same code I would have
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timojeajea
4y ago
You picked mainly data science python projects. It would make more sense to compare with other python web frameworks. django, 1101 open, 32662 closed cherrypy, 218 open, 1505 closed starlette, 31 open, 570 closed pyramid, 70 open, 966 close
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4y ago
One major advantage Flask has over FastAPI is maturity. FastAPI has 1000+ open issues on Github vs 14 for Flask. That is quite scary.
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5y ago
Even though Redis might be 16 times faster than PostgreSQL at reading JSON blobs, it doesn't mean that it is using 16 times less CPU doing so. A while ago I benchmarked Redis vs PostgreSQL and I was initially fooled by the difference i