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Consider me extremely skeptical. One more network service to potentially fail or have security issues. And a whole new thundering herd problem on system recovery. I can only imagine this is tailored for some peculiar workload that I've never seen.


The 2 usecases I see this working well for.

* Anything involving autoscaling

* My usecase of 1000s of servers doing ETL type work with java processes getting created and destroyed often.

I don't think this is a great boon for long lived services.


Azul is popular in low latency financial services. A usecase might be to reduce the variance that JIT compilation introduces to transaction latency, especially at the high percentiles.




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