Comment by hinkley
2 months ago
I think in the age of telemetry we are also missing a substantial trick by not applying FFTs to cloud telemetry to smoke out epicycles and metastable systems before rather than after they trigger drama. This is unfortunately within my level of notice but not within my level of skill, and my dance card is already full.
"SLA's are most likely to be violated 23-25 minutes after a service deployment. Hmm, I wonder why that is... Oh no."
"I'm afraid I cannot deploy your application, Dave"
Jokes aside one area this could be really worth money is predicting cycles of traffic and saving with ramp up and ramp down of server instances. It's the kind of work that if you're doing it out of your time the company would never give you greenlight it but if you pack it as a shelf product they would totally buy it.
Yep. I worked on a SaaS for one particular retail industry, and I would bet you anything they see more traffic when biweekly paydays and the calendar line up in certain ways. Either a couple days before (window shopping) or a few days after, once other bills are paid.
That extra half paycheck when a month has 5 Mondays or Fridays in it...