The Myth of Auto Scaling as a Capacity Planning Approach
A quite old, but very educative post by James Golick dissecting the mythical extra server capacity:
There’s this idea floating around that we can scale out our data services “just in time”. Proponents of cloud computing frequently tout this as an advantage of such a platform. Got a load spike? No problem, just spin up a few new instances to handle the demand. It’s a great sounding story, but sadly, things don’t quite work that way.
This is the Mythical Man-Month of the IT department.
Original title and link: The Myth of Auto Scaling as a Capacity Planning Approach (©myNoSQL)
via: http://jamesgolick.com/2010/10/27/we-are-experiencing-too-much-load-lets-add-a-new-server..html
