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Re:A million-dollar engineering problem by QuinnyPig on Thursday March 16, 2017 @05:48PM (#13889517)
Ah, my apologies!

It depends. I have a toy service that exists entirely as an autoscaling group. That's pretty dynamic!

Counterpoint: Mainframes.

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Re:A million-dollar engineering problem by rhizome on Thursday March 16, 2017 @06:30PM (#13889765)
A toy service is not what I'm thinking of as being in "the trough." The trough is where scaling and bursting aren't generally necessary.
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