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For large corporations like Amazon, there are huge opportunities to move to Lambda. Back when I worked there, teams would over-provision their services like cra
by laluser 7y ago
For large corporations like Amazon, there are huge opportunities to move to Lambda. Back when I worked there, teams would over-provision their services like crazy. Most of it to scale for the holiday season. Most teams would not give that extra capacity back.
- vinay_ys 7y agohow long ago was this?
- laluser 7y agoThis was < 2 years ago
- twblalock 7y agoThe other way of dealing with this is to put normal services in an autoscaling environment like Kubernetes. You don't have to go as far as Lambda to get the benefits. Moving to autoscaling is really more of a cultural problem than a technical one. If teams are used to being able to reserve excess capacity they will be wary of autoscaling -- what if they try to scale but there is not capacity to do so because other teams used it up? People need to trust that the system will give them the capacity they need or they will continue to overprovision.