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		baq on April 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It... and the high end of unreasonable hardware can get you reaaaaaallly far, which in the age of cloud computing is something people forget about and try to scale horizontally when not strictly necessary

threeseed on April 11, 2023 [–]

Most people should at least be thinking about horizontal scalability.

Because the chances of a cloud instance randomly going down is not insignificant.

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