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Google Cloud Blog is the company blog at googlecloudplatform.blogspot.ca, writing about systems and programming. Since 2013, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Compute Engine Load Balancing hits 1,000,000 TPS”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as original sources for Google Compute Engine posts, including scaling an app to one million requests per second for $10, containers versus VMs for security, and preemptible VMs. Comments only cite them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Compute Engine Load Balancing hits 1,000,000 TPS4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-11-26
What Hacker News says?
Akselos (Software Engineer, Boston or REMOTE) ------------------------- Akselos provides an advanced cloud-based engineering simulation platform for "accelerated Finite Element Analysis" based on over 10 years of award-winning research at MIT. This platform enables engineers to perform detailed, fully-3D analysis of large-scale complex systems in seconds, which eliminates a major pain point across a wide range of en…
Comment linking /2014/12/mitxs-edx-course-uses-akselos-for-complex-engineering-simulations-on-Compute-Engine.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)”Submitted Google Compute Engine is now Generally Available as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is the original post http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.ca/2013/11/compute-engin...
Comment linking /2013/11/compute-engine-load-balancing-hits-1-million-requests-per-second.html
on “Google Shows How To Scale Apps From Zero To One Million RPS, For $10”Submitted Speed up iOS development with Google Cloud Platform as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOriginal post http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.ca/2013/11/compute-engin...
Comment linking /2013/11/compute-engine-load-balancing-hits-1-million-requests-per-second.html
on “Google Shows How To Scale Apps From Zero To One Million RPS, For $10”Submitted Reducing Google App Engine High Replication Datastore prices by up to 25% as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNginx can do 500K to 1 million req/s http://lowlatencyweb.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/500000-request... So can Google's compute engine on a $10 instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6804897 http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.ca/2013/11/compute-engin...
Comment linking /2013/11/compute-engine-load-balancing-hits-1-million-requests-per-second.html
on “Lwan: Experimental, scalable, high performance HTTP server”Submitted Compute Engine Load Balancing hits 1,000,000 TPS as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"Providing machines for Kubernetes in not only necessary as a pool of raw cycles and bytes but also can provide a critical extra layer of security". [0] Maybe it's true for now, but containers may be enough security in the future. [0] http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.ca/2014/08/containers-vm...
Comment linking /2014/08/containers-vms-kubernetes-and-vmware.html
on “Docker and VMWare”TL/DR - Preemptible VMs are the same as regular instances except for one key difference - they may be shut down at any time [1, 2, 3]. Similar to early AWS spot instances from what I gather (minus the bidding exchange). [1] http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.ca/2015/05/Introducing-P... [2] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9564122
Comment linking /2015/05/Introducing-Preemptible-VMs-a-new-class-of-compute-available-at-70-off-standard-pricing.html
on “Compute Engine Preemptible VMs Are Now Generally Available”
