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by mianos 1488 days ago
I am highly dubious that it would be possible to manage 100k servers, specially to do interactions with large numbers at a time. The way tower collects results in a thread pool, assuming success, simply does not work at any scale. I tried and tried. I fixed many bugs and got to about 4000 hosts before changing to another platform.

If almost every server is reliable, I am sure it would work fine. That is not going to happen at scale.