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That, or, as explained in the SRE book, the extra load should've been shed. The binary choice is not always the right one. Though, granted, in this case, it wou
by gcbirzan 8y ago
That, or, as explained in the SRE book, the extra load should've been shed. The binary choice is not always the right one. Though, granted, in this case, it wouldn't have mattered...
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoYeah, I think "the web server ran out of money at 3 PM today" isn't the right choice, whereas "a lot of people had a hard time getting to the site when it got HN'd around 3 PM, but it was back to normal by 5 PM" is a better result. For smaller organizations, something being down during extreme load is a recoverable problem, but owing the cloud provider all of their money may not be. (Note that even in the case here where Google got them the grant to cover this bill, this is still probably 35K in grant money that could've gotten them further or been used better elsewhere.)