Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs

Re:Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs by magicCat on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @05:58AM (#37305396)

i disagree, not much more then 2 servers.. you should automate it fully for documentation purposes alone at this scale & test failover regulary

if you do this with 4 or 200 machines, does not make a big difference.

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Re:Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs by di4na on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @07:14AM (#37305999)

Actually it does because the chance of hitting strange edge cases grow significantly, as do the runtime of your deployment, plus networking problems risks.

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Re:Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs by manmal on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @10:13AM (#37308257)

Running 200 servers will force you to automate everything and also handle (relatively) rare edge cases, meaning added complexity, huge up front dev costs, and a continuous dev effort just to stay afloat. Work has to be balanced in a clever way, making tradeoffs that you otherwise wouldn't need to make. The mental model shifts from individual servers to a whole ecosystem that shows emergent behavior (= things break in a totally new way).

Maybe some of that also applies to 4 servers, but to a way lesser extent.

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