Burst 100 browser workers for an hour, on the metal you already rent

You need to scrape 50,000 pages tonight. The Fargate version is 100 tasks for an hour, billed by the second per task, plus egress, plus the part where Fargate cold-starts cost more than the work. The Lambda version means fighting image-size limits and cold starts to keep headless Chrome viable.

On Hoody, you already rent a bare metal box. Spawn 100 hoody-browser containers, each one a real Chromium instance with its own URL, fan the URL list across them via exec. The containers run hot for the hour, max out the cores, finish the job, and shut back down. The bill at the end of the hour is the same as if they hadn't run.

The next morning, none of them exist. The box is back to idle.

Burst capacity used to mean a per-second meter. Now it means using the box harder for an hour.