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"spanning 10,000+ VMs handling 100+ microservices" ?

• theprop 9y ago
  Sorry...thanks...let me clarify the question, why on earth does Lyft have 10,000 VMs??? They have less than 200,000 rides per day. That's a 1 VM to 20 rides per day ratio.
  • curiousDog 9y ago
    I guess they're building with future growth in mind. What if they decide to expand to the rest of North America in the near future and have a sudden spike?
    • kondro 9y ago
      Then you spin up more VMs when you do the expansion.
  • solipsism 9y ago
    They likely do a huge amount of data analytics.