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		brianwawok on May 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed database And white papers are full of it. Has random things like s Cassandra cluster needs 1 full time engineer per 100 nodes. Where do you come up with this stuff?

throwanem on May 11, 2017 [–]

In my experience of Cassandra (working on an application client, not managing it), one FTE per hundred nodes is extremely generous.

bshanks on May 11, 2017 | [–]

Do you mean that you typically need more engineers, or less?

throwanem on May 11, 2017 | | [–]

The former. One FTE per dozen nodes is more in line with what I've seen in practice.

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