[mjb]

Time slicing significantly predates computers, and was quite well developed even when Erlang was analyzing it a century ago. What's surprising here isn't that time slicing works, it's that the same mechanism drives both the economics of large systems, and their ability to economically support bursty workloads.

I can understand that may not be a surprise to you. What's surprising to me is that you took the time to come say you aren't surprised, instead of going on with your day.

Clearly, I shouldn't have claimed this casual blog post was original research that had never been seen in any form before. Silly me!

[throwawaylinux]

> Time slicing significantly predates computers, and was quite well developed even when Erlang was analyzing it a century ago.

I mean its implementation in computer systems.

> What's surprising here isn't that time slicing works, it's that the same mechanism drives both the economics of large systems, and their ability to economically support bursty workloads.

That's not surprising.

> Clearly, I shouldn't have claimed this casual blog post was original research that had never been seen in any form before. Silly me!

That's not the issue though is it, that's your snarky strawman to deflect from it. Which is that its a lazy cliche title and it purports to be much more grandiose than it is.

[preseinger]

thank you, good samaritan, for doing the tough but necessary work of disparaging this blog post, and the person who posted it, because you find the conclusions obvious

i'm sure that marc brooker, the author, and one of the most accomplished computer scientists currently living, will think twice before posting such pablum again

[throwawaylinux]

Somebody was surprised by the scalability of multitenancy :)