[peterwwillis]

Are planes in the habit of carrying much more fuel than they need, just in case they will weigh too much when landing, in which case they dump the fuel? No. In the inverse example, we don't put extra load on servers in anticipation that load goes up, just so we can dump the extra load and put it back to where it would have been had we not had extra load. The idea is moronic. It is literally the same as putting lead in your servers until you have to dump it, just because you can. Real admins have alerts on their servers to tell them when they will need additional capacity.

Incidentally, fuel dump systems were initially added due to a rule by the FAA that a plane's structural landing weight not be exceeded by its takeoff weight. Many commercial planes never had this problem, so dumping systems were not installed. As a result, most planes just circle until they've burned up enough fuel, or land anyway overweight. You could dump fuel to lessen the chance of explosion, but only if your plane is equipped with a fuel dump system, and such incidents are so rare it's not even a safety consideration.

[eranki]

lol why are you so mad -- perhaps you couldn't make this out through your tears of rage:

"Why not just plan ahead? Because most of the time, it was a very abrupt failure that we couldn’t detect with monitoring."

[peterwwillis]

lol why are you retarded? What does monitoring have to do with adding extra load onto your servers? If there's a failure there's a failure. What does adding or removing load have to do with detecting it?

So you have a system, and you have monitoring in place. Let's say the monitors were set up for 1 minute polls, because somebody thought that was a good idea. Suddenly you find out one of your servers is down. Oh noes! There's 45 seconds until the monitor finds this out, which would be horrible.

Since we have doubled the reads on the existing servers, we now no longer have capacity and connections are stacking up. Shit :'( But not to worry! Let's just quickly kill the extra reads - now we have more capacity! Hooray!

Except, if the extra reads weren't happening, they would have already had extra fucking capacity and not had to flip a switch in the first place.

Now you see why i'm mad, bro?