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Santeri Paavolainen
Personal blog · santtu.iki.fisystemsprogramming
Santeri Paavolainen writes Random Title, Working Thoughts, a personal blog at santtu.iki.fi about systems and programming. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only linked comment is in a thread on Google's preemptible VMs and contrasts Google's fixed prices with AWS spot pricing. It says nothing about the linked writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This is the personal blog of Santeri Paavolainen, mostly concerned about technology and cloud computing, but contains other random topics as well.
What Hacker News says?
The fundamental difference seems to be that Google's prices are fixed, whereas AWS uses a "market" model, which frequently sees crazy prices (well over the on-demand price) especially in us-east-1. I say "market" because no-one really knows how the spot market place actually works. We've had machines run for weeks, and other times the prices fluctuate in bizarre ways and we can't get out preferred instance types for…
Comment linking /2014/03/20/ec2-spot-market/
on “Introducing Preemptible VMs”Submitted Using spot instances as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How much power can a power-hungry website consume? as a story · 2 points
HN discussion