Hi everyone, I have a situation where I have some really lightweight tasks—tasks that only send HTTP requests or process simple strings. Wouldn't deploying a pod on Kubernetes for this be excessive? It takes several seconds to deploy a pod, but the logic inside the pod takes only a few milliseconds. Does Flyte offer a solution for this? Thank you.

you can implement your own custom agent: https://docs.flyte.org/en/latest/flyte_agents/index.html

Yes, what @damp-lion-88352 said. That is exactly what you need. (Look for the synchronous version). If you’re performance bound and don’t even want to suffer the jump to the agent pod you can try a golang based webapi plugin, but I think that’s too cumbersome. Agent is the best choice.

We are also thinking h of writing a generic http agent to call http endpoints - cc @high-park-82026

check Actor if you're interested at it! https://docs.union.ai/serverless/core-concepts/actors