Cloud & DevOps
Google's Flexible VMs: The Secret Weapon to Keep Your Spark Jobs Alive During AI-Driven Compute Shortages
Key points
- Google's flexible VMs for Apache Spark reduce cluster provisioning failures during compute shortages by allowing an ordered list of acceptable machine families.
- The ranking system lets you specify multiple machine families per rank, improving capacity acquisition during high demand.
- Storage choices like Hyperdisk Balanced are tied to machine families, requiring joint planning of compute and storage.
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