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by ook 4536 days ago
A reasonable approximation is to model a sine wave per region with peak amplitude based on typical usage patterns. For example entertainment services will peak in evenings and at weekends, business services will peak during typical core hours Monday to Friday. With enough users spread across enough regions you never have a good time for all users so in practice it is better to engineer things so you can do deploys / maintenance whenever is best for the teams working on the service.