• tempest@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    They probably just cut server costs to the bone to save money and they can’t handle the load. Since their live streaming probably never gets traffic otherwise.

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        3 months ago

        I don’t think auto-scaling can scale to resources that don’t exist. Besides, I’m not sure how many people with both the competence and the spine to advise Musk when he’s doing A Stupid again still remain at the company.

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            3 months ago

            Oh absolutely, provided you’re versed enough to understand the resource limitations, the need to prepare scaling solutions and have the willingness to admit that your in-house resources might not be enough. I’m not confident Musk ticks any of these boxes, let alone all of them.

            And a competent team can only do so much. He ripped out data center servers, against his competent sysadmins’ advice.

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                3 months ago

                That’s what I was trying to allude to. Whoever is left is either not competent enough or unwilling to call him out (possibly because being employed is generally more important than being right).

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            3 months ago

            AWS can scale quite a bit but they don’t do it for free.

            Given all the cuts I’m doubtful they’re willing to pay the price