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by mvdtnz 237 days ago
No really true for large systems. We are doing things like deploying mitigations to avoid scale-in (eg services not receiving traffic incorrectly autoscaling down), preparing services for the inevitable storm, managing various circuit breakers, changing service configurations to ease the flow of traffic through the system, etc. We currently have 64 engineers in our on-call room managing this. There's plenty of work to do.