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Re:How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware by fleitz on Monday March 16, 2015 @03:54PM (#9213928)
Cpu also generally sucks due to cache thrashing on non-trivial datasets
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Re:How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware by icedchai on Monday March 16, 2015 @04:45PM (#9214270)
Heh. So what is a good use case for EC2?
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Re:How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware by fleitz on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @01:54AM (#9216489)
When you have highly variable load.

eg. Netflix probably spins up thousands of servers for a few hours.

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