On: Leaving the Cloud

[snotrockets]

You are doing measuring wrong (look at distributions, not a number), and moving to the cloud wrong (rearchitect with elasticity and serverless in mind, don’t just put it on instances).

I was hoping those lessons would be a bit more common by now.

[kortilla → snotrockets]

You don’t understand how the vast majority of compute workloads pan out for regular businesses if you think “elasticity” has any relevance at all.

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Well at a company I worked at, on the surface it looked like we only needed to be running compute 9 am - 8 pm.

But nowadays, it runs full load 24/7 on the cloud.

Turns out the after hours batch jobs are just as demanding. shrugs