Posts by Matthew Rocklin

Ten Cents Per Terabyte

06 October 2023
Matthew Rocklin

The optimal cost of cloud computing

Back-of-the-envelope calculation for a simple workload bound primarily by network bandwidth. Calculation is 1 TB / (60 MB/s) / 3600 s/hr * $0.02 / hr = $0.10

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Easy Heavyweight Serverless Functions

01 August 2023
Matthew Rocklin

What is the easiest way to run Python code in the cloud, especially for compute jobs?

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