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I dislike the term 'hyperscale' as it lacks concrete meaning. We need a metric akin to kilobytes or megabytes for storage. Terms like 'kiloscale' and 'megascale
by rthnbgrredf 3y ago
I dislike the term 'hyperscale' as it lacks concrete meaning. We need a metric akin to kilobytes or megabytes for storage. Terms like 'kiloscale' and 'megascale' could better indicate the scaling range of a service. For instance, scaling a service to a thousand instances and back to zero or rolling out patches to thousand instances could be termed 'kiloscale'.
- ravenstine 3y agoThat's why I brought up the question, and I'm baffled why so many people have been downvoting it. To me, its use seems very specific yet nothing I read about it told me anything concrete. From what I can tell, it actually is meant to broadly mean the extreme end of scaling. The threshold is still unknown to me, but I'll just take it that Meta is hyperscale.