Re:"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"
by thaumaturgy on Friday May 31, 2019 @05:02PM
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Yeah, probably. But we shouldn't be calling these guys out for not taking the "obvious and simple" solution when we aren't 100% certain that it would actually work. That happens too often on HN, and then sometimes the people involved pop in to explain why it's not so simple, and everyone goes "...oh." Seems like we should learn something from that. I've gone with "don't assume it's as simple as your ego would lead you to believe."
I'm going to take a stab at small and infrequently.
Every 2-3 months we had to execute a python script that takes 1s on all our data (500k rows), to make it faster we execute it in parallel on multiple droplets ~10 that we set up only for this pipeline and shut down once itβs done.