[sebstefan]

I really don't understand spinning up a whole pod just for a request

Wouldn't it be cheaper to just keep a pod up with a service running?

If scaleability is an issue just plop a load balancer in front of it and scale them up with load but surely you can't need a whole pod for every single one of those millions of requests right?

> Checkly is a synthetic monitoring tool that lets teams monitor their API’s and sites continually, and find problems faster.

>With some users sending *millions of request a day*, that 300ms added up to massive overall compute savings

No shit, right?

[crummy]

The article said they had to do a bunch of cleanup between requests when it was handled by one service. Which surprised me but these requests must be doing more than just HTTP requests I guess.

[c0brac0bra]

Yea they do E2E checks with playwright as well, among other things. A bunch of stuff could get cached from those checks I suppose, especially if it's user-written code.