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Comments to "InfiniCache: Distributed Cache on Top of AWS Lambda" #34

Open mikhailshilkov opened 4 years ago

mikhailshilkov commented 4 years ago

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smeraner commented 4 years ago

Why is this article titled with serverless but uses a "large EC2 virtual machine" as a proxy. And how could a "large EC2 virtual machine" run for 20 Dollars a month?

mikhailshilkov commented 4 years ago

That's a good point, thanks for noticing.

While the proxy is a separate logical component, the authors actually co-located it on the client machine, and therefore have not included any extra fixed cost to the price calculation.

Admittedly, a dedicated proxy VM would add to the price. By the way, $20 is not the monthly price: the test only ran for 50 hours. I don't know the size of the required EC2 instance, so I can't estimate the exact price including the fixed cost.

I added two sentences to my blog post to clarify the co-location scenario.

rfulwell commented 4 years ago

Very interesting post! I have been considering similar schemes for hosting large(ish)-memory objects with infrequent access and this is nice validation that the idea has potential.

Thanks!

jasango commented 3 years ago

Maybe you find this more simple and cost effective: https://github.com/jasango/lambda-cache