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1. tbrown+(OP)[view] [source] 2026-02-03 04:30:38
> It means that any service designed to survive a control plane outage must statically allocate its compute resources and have enough slack that it never relies on auto scaling. True for AWS/GCP/Azure.

That sounds oddly similar to owning hardware.

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2. ragall+N3[view] [source] 2026-02-03 05:06:50
>>tbrown+(OP)
In a way. It means that you can get new capacity most often, but the transition windows where a service gets resized (or mutated in general) has to be minimised and carefully controlled by ops.
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