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Same. I remember asking one guy at FB the process to ask for a new server. He said he can't even open a request for anything less than a thousand boxes. The
by silisili 5y ago
Same. I remember asking one guy at FB the process to ask for a new server. He said he can't even open a request for anything less than a thousand boxes. The largest fleet I'd worked on at that point was 12... different worlds.
- lclarkmichalek 5y agoI mean, that's not true in the general case. That'd be incredibly wasteful. (Work at Meta, mostly on capacity)
- mescaline 5y ago
- ryeguy 5y agoThis is a technical post, stay on topic and stop posting flamewar bait.
- mescaline 5y ago
- ethanwillis 5y agoIt's not flamewar bait unless you turn it into that. It can be a fruitful discussion.
- aliceryhl 5y agoIt's not flamewar content yet, but it definitely is flamewar bait.
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- summerlight 5y agoYeah, I guess it probably is some sort of criteria that requires a formal request? The resource under that number might be automatically provisioned via "freebie quota" per team. I don't work for Meta but I believe most of the big techs work in a similar way.
- silisili 5y agoCurious - do you know what he could have been referring to? SRE position, 6-8 years ago.
- lclarkmichalek 5y agoA bit before my time, but maybe a physical capacity order, to a non fungible pool. The infra is quite different now (mostly to avoid this kind of inefficiency)