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by _tom_ 1763 days ago
They are on a back-end that does auto-scaling. They stated that they had problems when scaling up past 1000 nodes.

Now, maybe they could have fixed that issue instead, but going from 29 to 58 workers is easy, it's not the same going to 29,000 to 58,000. And 1000 hosts vs 500 is a non-trivial cost.