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> And if you find that you need to scale beyond one or two instances (not everything is a CRUD webapp, after all) especially autoscaling, then... Have you ever

> And if you find that you need to scale beyond one or two instances (not everything is a CRUD webapp, after all) especially autoscaling, then... Have you ever been working a solo project that needed autoscaling? If so what was it doing that was so resource intensive per $ earned that it was still a solo project?

throwaway894345 6y ago
Picture an analytics application--something that has to crunch a bunch of data per request, and your users are mostly visiting from 9-5. Depending on the size of the user's data source, they could easily use a whole CPU and a lot of memory for each request and requests can take up to 60s or maybe even multiple minutes. You need to run more than a handful of machines, so you can either overprovision or autoscale, but in either case you need some amount of reproducibility to wrangle all of those machines and you'll probably want to plan for them to come and go because you probably don't want to pay for a bunch of high-end machines sitting idle every night. Optimization is nontrivial so you'll get around to it eventually and maybe even hire, but hiring your first employee is a lot harder than hiring your 101st employee, so you're not going to do it right now but you still need a solution to your problem...
- AlchemistCamp 6y ago
  Did you run an app like this? If so, which one? I very nearly launched an event analytics app at the beginning of this year but ended up just rolling one for my own internal use.
  - throwaway894345 6y ago
    I did in a past life. I'd prefer not to say which one because this is an anonymous account and I don't want to make it too easy to associate to my real world identity.
    - AlchemistCamp 6y ago
      Understandable! Thanks confirming that it was a first-hand experience rather than a hypothetical.

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> And if you find that you need to scale beyond one or two instances (not everything is a CRUD webapp, after all) especially autoscaling, then... Have you ever

by AlchemistCamp 6y ago

throwaway894345 6y ago
Picture an analytics application--something that has to crunch a bunch of data per request, and your users are mostly visiting from 9-5. Depending on the size of the user's data source, they could easily use a whole CPU and a lot of memory for each request and requests can take up to 60s or maybe even multiple minutes. You need to run more than a handful of machines, so you can either overprovision or autoscale, but in either case you need some amount of reproducibility to wrangle all of those machines and you'll probably want to plan for them to come and go because you probably don't want to pay for a bunch of high-end machines sitting idle every night. Optimization is nontrivial so you'll get around to it eventually and maybe even hire, but hiring your first employee is a lot harder than hiring your 101st employee, so you're not going to do it right now but you still need a solution to your problem...
- AlchemistCamp 6y ago
  Did you run an app like this? If so, which one? I very nearly launched an event analytics app at the beginning of this year but ended up just rolling one for my own internal use.
  - throwaway894345 6y ago
    I did in a past life. I'd prefer not to say which one because this is an anonymous account and I don't want to make it too easy to associate to my real world identity.
    - AlchemistCamp 6y ago
      Understandable! Thanks confirming that it was a first-hand experience rather than a hypothetical.