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auslander on Aug 27, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lessons we learned when debugging a scaling proble...

> For example .. In fact this problem is so common ..

So whats the problem here? Assuming there are no misconfigurations anymore, and just spiking loads.

btilly on Aug 27, 2019 [–]

The problem is that people try to use autoscaling to handle a spiking load, and it fails abysmally.

In my opinion for those with a spiking load profile, autoscaling should be considered harmful.

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