Thoughts

Notes on software engineering, distributed systems, and the future of human productivity.

A Server That Bills Like a Function

Fluid compute makes a long-lived server bill like a function: it stops charging you for the I/O wait that classic serverless bills in full. That part is not virtualization magic, it's a worker pool and one counter in cgroups v2. I checked what I could rebuild on the same Hetzner box I run everything on, and where the box says no.