Re:Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing ...
by justapassenger on Sunday January 12, 2020 @10:50PM
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> More generally, few site reliability engineers are looking to add extra ways for the site to be taken offline.
SRE 101 is rate limiting everything and protection against DDoS. With cloud and auto scaling risks of DDoS are less about uptime but more about getting a bill that will bankrupt the business.
Re:Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing ...
by gdxhyrd on Sunday January 12, 2020 @07:28PM
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> few site reliability engineers are looking to add extra ways for the site to be taken offline
If your company has anything close to "reliability engineers", then you already have legal and finance teams too that can sort terms out.
The discussion is about companies that do not even have departments to begin with.
Re:Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing ...
by viraptor on Monday January 13, 2020 @04:55AM
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> few site reliability engineers are looking to add extra ways for the site to be taken offline.
Apart from the cases already mentioned in sibling comments, at some scale you start adding in outage switches in many cases. Basically quick ways to take parts of your service offline if something starts misbehaving.
Or if the rise in costs is something you can mitigate on your end - such as a bad deployment - you might want time to respond yourself, rather than your site going offline.
More generally, few site reliability engineers are looking to add extra ways for the site to be taken offline.
Of course, if you're large enough to be in those situations, your round-the-clock operations staff will be monitoring the billing situation as carefully as they monitor page load times and error rates and database load so an unexpected bill will be very unlikely.