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Wouldn’t you deploy generally deploy your services with a certain safety margin? I am pretty sure most systems I am working on could handle 10x pretty easily. T
by Ididntdothis 6y ago
Wouldn’t you deploy generally deploy your services with a certain safety margin? I am pretty sure most systems I am working on could handle 10x pretty easily. Then it would get hard but it seems 2.5x is a pretty normal and expected fluctuation.
- tyrust 6y agoProvisioning for 2.5x of peak load would be pretty expensive and, in most cases, overly cautious (good luck selling 10x to your financers!). For a large service that wants to be able to handle unexpected spikes, I'd expect something more like 1.1-1.5x margin. As their blog post says, they weren't unprepared. They had the means to grow and used it. Burning money before that time wasn't necessary.
- Ididntdothis 6y agoMakes sense. I guess I was thinking about smaller deployments where the absolute server cost isn't that high.