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Re:Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos eng... by bpicolo on Monday August 24, 2020 @11:56AM (#24261861)
> Since dedicated boxes are cheap, I'd just buy 5x the CPU resources that I reasonably need and call it a day

This isn't the case when your baseline is 6-7+ figures worth of machines

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Re:Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos eng... by fxtentacle on Monday August 24, 2020 @02:57PM (#24264087)
I fully agree. I'm usually working with companies in the $10mio to $100mio ARR range. So obviously my way of doing things will fail at Amazon's scale. But let's face it, most developers are not at FAANG but at normal mid sized companies.
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