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Flex Up and Flex Down Database Capacity
We’ve explored scaling up and out. Then, we talked about scaling in and down. MySQL is a very popular RDBMS, but challenges arise when your workload hits the limits of the largest node you can provision. But this third article isn’t about adding scale — it’s about removing it. From the technical/DevOps perspective, it’s hard enough to have sufficient resources deployed, so why would you ever want to consider removing them?
Everyone’s seen the “wall of shame” of tweets about major e-commerce sites suffering site slowdowns and outages during Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Here’s a brief recap just from the last decade:
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