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by nailer 3982 days ago
Don't work there but friends in ops industry have them as a client. Cool story: to handle EC2 performance variance, they systematically spin up some multiple of required capacity, have all the instances run a benchmark, then terminate the slowest and least deterministic.
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Pretty sure this was in this presentation http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/brendangregg/performance-tu...