A nice side effect of cloud services: engineering teams can provision their own infrastructure without gatekeepers, enabling faster iterations.
I want to argue that engineers can generally be trusted with this responsibility, provided we set them up for success…
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Also, even if you could, there is more to a business than the tech.
If that is what happens, great! Technical innovation directly benefited the consumer.
More likely explanation: you’re just building the wrong thing more efficiently.
I was wondering the same: If the point of spot instances is to smooth out a spiky demand pattern, isn’t this by definition ill-suited for applications requiring a base load.
Though your teaser above indicates an answer: You get a free lunch because you manage to load balance between instance types?
Care to elaborate?
Senior leadership did the analysis: What’s missing at XYZ Corp is a value statements that underpins the company’s unique culture! Problems like this demand the corporate weapon of choice to jump into action: The Workgroup.
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It all depends on what you decompose the system for. Team autonomy? Failure boundaries? Independent scaling? There is some strategic thinking involved and decoupling can happen at multiple levels, following different strategies.
