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Ah yes, the disbelief. I did this at a smaller scale at last our last startup. Already back then (~5y ago) I was met with scepticism when explaining how we ran everything on just one "big" server (with another one as a hot-standby). There are tradeoffs but there always are. @danluu/1586135055747125248
I actually had a conversation with one of the two IT people involved in that operation, who was blown away by the high confidence replies that what he did was impossible.

He's now at a different company with a team of 4 people that manages servers across 3 datacenters, with
— Dan Luu (@danluu) October 28, 2022

2022 Oct 31 Mood +2 🙂