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by reedciccio 1814 days ago
do capacity planners buy and sell capacity to scale up and down month to month? :)
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When does the need ever go down?
If you're retail, it goes down after xmas. If you're a tax company, it goes down after may. If you sell a product, it goes down when you go long enough without releasing anything new
At night, often. For example, I have had a use case where we needed a 1000 node build farm during the day when developers were working, but only 50 at night. Machine learning jobs are another common source of workloads that need burst capacity.
What company has constant load 24/7/365?
I’m going to guess Visa.
I'm sure they still see time of day effects, day of week effects, month of year effects.