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yipinwongtoday at 7:50 PM3 repliesview on HN

AWS CloudWatch has an option to show the trend and what it will be like after x-period.

Doesn't Azure have such options so that engineers can predict to scale better? Seems like engineers are not ready for this per postmortem


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jdm2212today at 7:53 PM

The trend line does not tell you what will actually happen at scale, even if you think you're perfectly prepared for the next 10% or 20% growth. As Mike Tyson put it, "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face".

dhruvrrptoday at 9:26 PM

The problem is there are a class of problems that only appear after you go over the tip of what your system can handle, which are very difficult to predict or model.