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As someone who has been in the industry for 20 years everything seems to be getting worse. Like Kubernetes and SPA apps. People rarely need these (OK, high avai
by collyw 6y ago
As someone who has been in the industry for 20 years everything seems to be getting worse. Like Kubernetes and SPA apps. People rarely need these (OK, high availability via Kubernetes is nice, but few people need elastic scaling).
- earthboundkid 6y agoThat was my experience with a spikey server that I had behind an ELB. It was better to just eat it and run a medium server all the time behind a CDN than to try to scale up and down from small to large when a traffic spike came. The scaling isn’t worth the effort.
- collyw 6y agoWe apparently saved some server costs by moving to kubernetes, but it cost at least 6 months of dev time. And we have had problems with large uploads and downloads, because the smaller instances can't handle them as easily. I am not convinced it was a wise choice, but it was made before I started.