aleixmorgadas’s avataraleixmorgadas’s Twitter Archive—№ 168

  1. When speed is crucial don't invest time in setup an Auto Scaling Group and tune it to optimize resources. Setup enough machines (2-3) to support the traffic and manually scale up when needed. You can use this method for a long while before it comes worth to configure it.
    1. …in reply to @aleixmorgadas
      An alarm to know when the servers died or are about to die for traffic is worth BTW.
      1. …in reply to @aleixmorgadas
        In our case, we have a desired amount of tasks in AWS Fargate. If a service dies, it will automatically setup another. When needed, we just allocate more CPUs or RAM and we continue delivering tasks.
        oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API