Re:How They SRE
by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @10:43AM
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Apples and oranges though; if your business can run on a $500 NUC and if it failing is not a problem, then by all means go for it.
But if you look at scaled companies, you'll see a different picture. One of AWS's sales pitches is that setting up a datacenter is a big upfront expense, you need the space, hardware, and personnel to build it, and you have to provision it for peak load.
Take e.g. a recent game like Fall Guys, that went from 0 to millions of concurrent players within days, maybe even hours. Can't run that on your $500 NUC. You couldn't buy and provision enough NUCs to keep up even if you tried.
Anyway once again, if that one works for you then stick with it. I too prefer to not go overboard with scalability and the fancy technologies of today if I can help it.
But if you look at scaled companies, you'll see a different picture. One of AWS's sales pitches is that setting up a datacenter is a big upfront expense, you need the space, hardware, and personnel to build it, and you have to provision it for peak load.
Take e.g. a recent game like Fall Guys, that went from 0 to millions of concurrent players within days, maybe even hours. Can't run that on your $500 NUC. You couldn't buy and provision enough NUCs to keep up even if you tried.
Anyway once again, if that one works for you then stick with it. I too prefer to not go overboard with scalability and the fancy technologies of today if I can help it.