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Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on S...
moving parts of running programs across machines
Why is this desirable and what is the magnitude of the benefit?
choppaface
on Feb 13, 2019
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One application is fault tolerance. If you need to take a machine down, you can move the node (JVM program) to some other machine. So similar to pausing a long-running Lambda function, moving it elsewhere, and resuming it.
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Why is this desirable and what is the magnitude of the benefit?