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by SilasX
1969 days ago
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>This usually works well, under the rationale that "upstream provider does this for a living, so they must be better than us at this", but if you have too unique needs (or are just a bit "unlucky"), it can fail too. Heh, a while ago I joked that one way to scale is to "make it somebody else's problem", with the proviso that you need to make sure that the someone else can handle the load. And then (due to the context) a commenter balked at the idea that a big player like YouTube would be unable handle the scaling of their core business. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23170685 (If they're really blaming it on AWS, it really takes guts to do it so publicly, I think.) |
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