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stavrosyesterday at 9:15 PM1 replyview on HN

I think they're feeling the heat from growing too quickly so they want to incentivize people to spread the load more evenly.


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toomuchtodoyesterday at 9:38 PM

Very much like electric utility time of day pricing, using economic incentives to shift demand to trough periods.

Perhaps an opportunity for them to improve workload scheduling orchestration, like submitting a job to a distributed computing cluster queue, to smooth demand and maximize utilization.

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