Or converting between priority levels or users that were under your product. If you ran a large enough service, there was also begging your users for spare quota or warning them that their recent donation couldn't be fully deployed because a necessary change in some secondary borgcfg template had eaten into the service's resources, so it would help everybody if they knew anyone with a few cores laying around...

By the way, do you happen to be the jwb that filed a... creative BT quota request?

Yeah that's me.

Hah, I was the one that played along and made you keep going ("May you be gifted with a long, healthy life and an exquisite taste in ties"?). And I think SAD was one of the teams that occasionally helped us find resources in this or that cluster, along with Analytics and, later, Social.

AAAAA+ GREAT CUSTOMER WOULD SELL TO AGAIN

I seem to remember hearing prod quota disputes described as “monkey knife fights” by SRE. SWE would joke about using corp credit cards on EC2 instances rather than waiting on the outcome.