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What you state makes sense. For me, I haven't worked in an environment (yet) that would need to handle fluctuating loads at scale—so my comment is my own specul
by dvaun 5y ago
What you state makes sense. For me, I haven't worked in an environment (yet) that would need to handle fluctuating loads at scale—so my comment is my own speculation based on my experience working for smaller businesses with MUCH less data and bandwidth usage compared to those mentioned here.
And that's why I come to HN, lobsters, etc :) so that I can read and learn from others' experiences...
- freedomben 5y agoI've worked with dozens of different companies, and it's pretty rare to truly have such crazy variance in load.
- kazen44 5y agoalso, the moment it does happen you usually have non technical systems which are even harder to scale. (customer support for instance, or your sales/billing pipeline).
- brianwawok 5y agoHonestly, a lot of people overengineer the scaling thing. Google really does need a service that can scale to 100M users. I doubt someone starting a SaaS to make garbage truck software needs to. Or at a minimum, at the time they need that kind of scale, they will have plenty of money to throw at hardware. It's amazing how many users a single maxed DB can handle.