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Compute: VM / container / serverless / batch

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VM host packing containers

Illustrative: control-plane API places container tasks on a VM/machine. Borg paper: production workloads in containers; EC2/ECS docs are separate product surfaces.

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Operator / CIControl plane APIVM / machineVM / machineContainer AContainer B

Start from a VM/machine abstraction (Amazon EC2 product docs). The guest OS is shared by collocated workloads when you pack containers.

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Serverless invocation burst

Event-driven workers scale per invocation as product docs describe. Account concurrency limits still exist — do not treat marketing “infinite scale” as a primary claim.

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InvokeEvent sourceInvoke front doorFunction workerFunction workerDependency

An event source invokes the serverless front door. AWS Lambda docs describe the programming model and scaling behavior of the product.

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Batch and services on one cluster theme

Borg mixes latency-sensitive services and batch; MapReduce-style controllers run as jobs. Teaching contrast — not a 2026 Google topology claim.

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SchedulerLatency servicelatency-sensitiveBatch controllersbatch jobsWorker pool

Borg describes mixing latency-sensitive services and batch on shared machines with packing and isolation. Treat paper statements as era-labeled.