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Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet

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234 points benocodes | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.32s | source
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jeffbee ◴[14 Oct 24 15:11 UTC] No.41838276[source]▶
File under "things you will never need to do if you use cloud services".
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martinsnow ◴[14 Oct 24 15:14 UTC] No.41838301[source]▶
Nah random outages because the RDS instance you were on decided to faceplant itself, or the weird memory to bandwidth scaling AWS has chosen will make you pull your hair out on a high traffic day.

It's just different problems.

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1. jeffbee ◴[14 Oct 24 15:23 UTC] No.41838385[source]▶
The company in the article is doing < 200qps per node. Unless they are returning a feature-length video file from every query, they are nowhere near any hardware resource limits.