Re:Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs
by manmal on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @10:13AM
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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.
Maybe some of that also applies to 4 servers, but to a way lesser extent.