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Re:MySQL performance optimization: 50% more work with 60% le... by granto on Friday June 26, 2015 @06:29PM (#9788125)
Zynga's case was more nuanced than that story leads on. Zynga built out its datacenter capacity assuming a base line of users, which in hindsight, was optimistic and left them with significant excess capacity and costs.
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Re:MySQL performance optimization: 50% more work with 60% le... by icelancer on Friday June 26, 2015 @08:05PM (#9788447)
Well... this is kind of a selling point of AWS... isn't it? So it's not just "nuance," it's actually a feature.
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