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Re:Rackspace lays off 200 locals in company-wide cuts by samstave on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @07:00PM (#13594312)
Refactor code to handle spot loss and then go with much larger spot instances??
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Re:Rackspace lays off 200 locals in company-wide cuts by FireBeyond on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @08:44PM (#13594949)
I could see that true. I forgot that my (now ex-) employer was for whatever reasons averse to reserved, let alone spots.
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Re:Rackspace lays off 200 locals in company-wide cuts by samstave on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @10:48PM (#13595553)
To clarify, in all liklihood - you would be doing top tier on spot, and then 2nd and third via other methods... but there are ways to get a system to really handle spot loss...

There are MANY applications that simply are too complex to handle such an arch... so, - do so, when you can, but know when that's just stupid.... stacks are like snowflakes, we LOVE them to death, or we love them to DEATH...

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