PiCloud. An interesting twist on cloud computing for Python. “import cloud; cloud.call(my_function, arguments)” serialises my_function and its arguments, pushes it up to one of their EC2 servers and hands you back a job ID which you can poll (or block on) for a response. They suggest using it for long running tasks such as web crawling or image processing.
Recent articles
- Weeknotes: asynchronous LLMs, synchronous embeddings, and I kind of started a podcast - 22nd November 2024
- Notes from Bing Chat—Our First Encounter With Manipulative AI - 19th November 2024
- Project: Civic Band - scraping and searching PDF meeting minutes from hundreds of municipalities - 16th November 2024