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Thanks! I try to address this thought in the opening. The issue with this approach is you are scaling at the wrong level of operation. You're scaling your entir
by chrismccord 3y ago
Thanks! I try to address this thought in the opening. The issue with this approach is you are scaling at the wrong level of operation. You're scaling your entire app, ie webserver, in order to service specific hot operations. Instead what we want (and often reach for FaaS for) is granular elastic scale. The idea here is we can do this kind of granular scale for our existing app code rather that smashing the webserver/workers scale buttons and hoping for the best. Make sense?
- stuartaxelowen 3y agoIf you autoscale based on CPU consumption, doesn’t the macro level scaling achieve the same thing? Is the worry scaling small scale services where marginal scaling is a higher multiple, e.g. waste from unused capacity?