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Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by Jedi72 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:53PM (#19578627)
Did you read the article? You are not Google. If you ever do really need that kind of redundancy and scale you will have the team to support it, with all the benefits of doing it in-house. No uptime guarantee or web dashboard will ever substitute for simply having people who know what they're doing on staff.

How a company which seems entirely driven by vertical integration is able to convince other companies that outsourcing is the way to go is an absolute mystery to me.

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Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by scarface74 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @09:11PM (#19578723)
No, we are not Google. We do need to be able to handle spiky loads - see the other reply. No we don’t “need a team” to support.

Yes “the people in the know” are at AWS. They handle failover, autoscaling, etc.

We also use Serverless Aurora/MySQL for non production environments with production like size of data. When we don’t need to access the database, we only pay for storage. When we do need it, it’s there.

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