[silisili]

Same. I remember asking one guy at FB the process to ask for a new server. He said he can't even open a request for anything less than a thousand boxes. The largest fleet I'd worked on at that point was 12... different worlds.

[lclarkmichalek]

I mean, that's not true in the general case. That'd be incredibly wasteful.

(Work at Meta, mostly on capacity)

[summerlight]

Yeah, I guess it probably is some sort of criteria that requires a formal request? The resource under that number might be automatically provisioned via "freebie quota" per team. I don't work for Meta but I believe most of the big techs work in a similar way.

[silisili]

Curious - do you know what he could have been referring to? SRE position, 6-8 years ago.

[lclarkmichalek]

A bit before my time, but maybe a physical capacity order, to a non fungible pool. The infra is quite different now (mostly to avoid this kind of inefficiency)