Archive For December 17, 2008

Resource Consumption Shaping

Resource Consumption Shaping

Resource Consumption Shaping is an idea that Dave Treadwell and I came up with last year. The core observation is that service resource consumption is cyclical. We typically pay for near peak consumption and yet frequently are consuming far below this peak. For example, network egress is typically charged at the 95th percentile of peak…

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