Outsourcing Everyday Jobs to Thousands of Cloud Functions with gg

We introduce gg, a framework that helps people execute everyday applications—software compilation, unit tests, video encoding, or object recognition—using thousands of parallel threads on a "serverless" platform to achieve near-interactive completion times. We envision a future where instead of running these tasks on a laptop, or keeping a warm cluster running in the cloud, users push a button that spawns 10,000 parallel cloud functions to execute a large job in a few seconds from start. gg is designed to make this practical and easy.