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Are you sure you can't simply run it all from a single server? Computers are pretty fast these days.
by founderling 7y ago
Are you sure you can't simply run it all from a single server? Computers are pretty fast these days.
- marcinzm 7y agoAnd then the server goes down and you've got downtime. Or you want to release a new version and you have downtime (ie: no rolling upgrades). At some point you end up re-inventing enough of k8s to makes it sort of silly to not use the actual thing.
- solatic 7y agoIt's a big data company doing an amount of traffic per day that exceeds what you can fit in RAM, including those fancy x1.32xl's with 2 TB RAM and a monthly cost of ~$6,000 for a reserved instance. Yeah, I'm pretty sure we can't simply run it all from a single server.