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Roritharr on Sept 28, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video...

I'm not a big green-IT guy, but always pushing your systems close to its load maxima and then backing off with the test traffic as real traffic comes in feels like an enormous waste of electricity.

taeric on Sept 28, 2016 [–]

Almost as much as the overhead of splitting everything to a thousand microservices...

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