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Re:Rapid growth, lessons learned and improvements at Fly.io by mixmastamyk on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @02:38PM (#35073725)
Yes, although it's rarely possible to know which bottlenecks will hurt the most up front. Unless you've done the same thing before, which is not the case with anyone pushing boundaries.

Basically this is an argument around so-called premature optimization. Good to have issues now while it is mostly enthusiasts that are the customers. Guessing that this bump will be forgotten in five years? And not like AWS et al don't have outages occasionally that they learn from.

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Re:Rapid growth, lessons learned and improvements at Fly.io by otterley on Saturday March 11, 2023 @12:50PM (#35110742)
Consul has been around for close to 9 years now, and people have in fact tried to use Consul in the very same way Fly did, in many different business and industries, with similarly failing outcomes. Hashicorp knows this and almost certainly would have counseled against it if asked.
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Re:Rapid growth, lessons learned and improvements at Fly.io by mixmastamyk on Monday March 13, 2023 @01:58PM (#35139705)
Insert Donald Rumsfeld quote about un/known un/knowns.
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