Outsourcing Everyday Jobs to Thousands of Transient Functional Containers
micahlerner.com From Laptop to Lambda: Outsourcing Everyday Jobs to Thousands of Transient Functional Containers Published July 24, 2021 Found something wrong? Submit a pull request! This week’s paper review is the second in a series on “The Future of the Shell” (Part 1, a paper about possible ways to innovate in the shell is here ). As always, feel free to reach out on Twitter with feedback or suggestions about papers to read! These weekly paper reviews can also be delivered weekly to your inbox . From Laptop to Lambda: Outsourcing Everyday Jobs to Thousands of Transient Functional Containers This week’s paper discusses gg , a system designed to parallelize commands initiated from a developer desktop using cloud functions - an alternative summary is that gg allows a developer to, for a limited time period, “rent a supercomputer in the cloud”. While parallelizing computation using cloud functions is not a new idea on its own , gg focuses specifically on leveraging