My first post from NSDI is up! I'm talking about spot instances and skypilot!

https://blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/nsdi-recap-part-i-spot-instances

#nsdi24 #aws #spotinstances #skypilot

NSDI Recap, Part I - Spot Instances and SkyPilot

Ok, I've been promising this for a while, but it's time to dig into a few of my favorite talks and papers from NSDI '24. This was my first "academic" conference in a long time, and it was really fun to see a slightly different style of conference and audience. It was also much smaller than many of the conferences I go to; I think there were only a couple hundred people there, compared to KubeCon, which had

Applied Computing Research Labs

@usi thank you, but that would mean a huge effort. I have lots of screenshots from presentations, and I want to extract significant portions of text from them to create my personal reference.

Technically I can of course understand why Microsoft designed it this (save money by using #spotInstances, for example), but from a #UX point of view I find it simply unacceptable...☹️