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Human scale deployments (Ship It! #86)

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How Long Do You Want Your Hot Code Reloads to Take?

It's easier to drain nodes and then start efficiently with new capacity, especially if everything works as expected. Most applications I've built have had times in the day when no one is using them because there people go to sleep. So they've been limited to one country. That's not how things should run at large scale. In many cases, maybe your application can be down while you're doing an update. Maybe that doesn't matter at all. It's like, it's not that hard to keep the system up while performing an update.

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