PiCloud : Cloud Computing. Simplified.
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PiCloud : Cloud Computing. Simplified.
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#2Why doesn't anyone like PHP?
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#3Why doesn't anyone like PHP?
how's that namespace working out for you?
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#4How they scale automatically on python (a non-functional language)? I am puzzled.
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#5How they scale automatically on python (a non-functional language)? I am puzzled.
They probably spawn several python processes
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#6How they scale automatically on python (a non-functional language)? I am puzzled.
They probably spawn several python processes
Indeed, seems like a single cloud.call will not give you any parallelism, you need many calls. So the whole parallelization challenge is left completely up to you. Still, this is a nice approach, and I'd like to see more companies in this space.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
They probably spawn several python processes
Indeed, seems like a single cloud.call will not give you any parallelism, you need many calls. So the whole parallelization challenge is left completely up to you. Still, this is a nice approach, and I'd like to see more companies in this space.
Agreed, a very cool idea. I believe you are right on the parallelism front, cloud.call just offloads the processing on their servers, but you'd have to call it multiple times to get any parallelism.
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#8How they scale automatically on python (a non-functional language)? I am puzzled.
This is just a way to call a function and run it on a different server(s). You still have to design your program to handle parallelism.
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#9How they scale automatically on python (a non-functional language)? I am puzzled.
Python is a functional language in the sense that it has first class functions and you can pass them around.
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#10Looks nice, but I would rather have the processing power local to me. I have used the python framework, octopy. It is a mapreduce framework for python. Caveat: I have only used it for trivial problems thus far.