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Microsoft Tries To Guess Relatives With "Twins or Not"

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the find-the-doppleganger dept.

mikejuk writes: Hot on the heels of their popular "How Old Do I Look" website, Microsoft has released a tool called "Twins or Not." Powered by Microsoft’s Project Oxford Face API, the site lets people upload a pair of photos to the web and get back a similarity score. In a blog post Mat Velloso, Senior Software Development Engineer at the Technical Evangelism Development group at Microsoft, talks about how he put the program together in just four hours.

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  1. Slashdotted, now how busy is that site Mat? by Ropati · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mat notes how Azure is handling the load after the first few hours:

    http://www.matvelloso.com/2015...

    Mat,

    How is the load, now that you've been Slashdotted?

    Is this still within a personal budget?

    How about a report on how much this would cost the average Joe if he put it in the cloud and it went viral? Do you have a cost graph to go with the rest of the Azure Web App?

    If you are going to chortle about the ease of Azure, perhaps you should be more specific about the pricing. I love the ease, but I fear the the cost.

    Ropati

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    1. Re:Slashdotted, now how busy is that site Mat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      According to the article you linked, "the S3 pricing tier the server is sitting comfortably with 13% CPU usage and just one instance". He also turned on auto-scale which will deploy more instances if needed (with Azure, auto-scale is turned off by default).

      According to the Microsoft Azure rate card, an S3 instance is $0.2035/hr which is approximately ~$152 per month.

      Assuming the application scales linearly (it appears to), 230,000 = 13% CPU (from the article you linked), the application is CPU-bound, and a server maxes out at 90%, it will cost him approximately $152 per 1.5 million users. Is this within a personal budget? Definitely.