Data is smaller and disks are bigger than you'd think.
Reliable Insights
A blog on monitoring, scale and operational Sanity
Your service's traffic is steadily growing, latency has increased a bit but it's within reason. One day you launch a new customer and the latency jumps through the roof causing an outage. What happened? You hit the knee.
Traffic from users to your servers isn't a steady stream, it waxes and wanes over the day and week. The peak-to-mean ratio is your primary tool to avoid outages or unnecessary costs due to this.
