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As a matter of fact, I cannot think of a single industry that can serve a full service to the entirety of their clients at a discrete point in time.
by axlee 7y ago
As a matter of fact, I cannot think of a single industry that can serve a full service to the entirety of their clients at a discrete point in time.
- Intermernet 7y agoGarbage collection. As in the people who pick up your bins. They do this on a weekly basis.
- tdrgabi 7y agoBut if all their customers want their garbage picked up today, or everyday, it won't work.
- Intermernet 7y agoOn any single day, they only have a set list of customers. This is part of the contract.
- dragonwriter 7y agoMore relevant to the cloud analogy, if all their customers wanted to purchase a large extra pickup (beyond their normal baseline) on their normal day, which is part of garbage service offerings, they wouldn't be able to accommodate it.
- Intermernet 7y agoAha, thank you for finding the flaw in my example! I lounge corrected ;-)
- dragonwriter 7y agoGarbage collectors, like clouds, have usage based pricing, and cannot handle everyone spiking at once. They can handle everyone at normal baseline usage, but that's just like saying a cloud provider can handle everyone using the same number of reserved instances they’ve purchased on a long-term basis.