[AusNOG] So who's read an RFC or Internet Draft?

[Will Dowling]

> Perhaps I’m missing something in your explanation, but we can put in additional collectors at will by essentially cloning the VM and adding them to the pool – isn’t that horizontal scaling? The netflow traffic is distributed across the pool, not replicated to each one, so adding extra servers reduces the load on the existing servers. The primary goal of this design was more to reduce the risk of a single failure breaking everything rather than to enable horizontal scaling, but I think it achieves both.

Mark is referring to the  load balancer, which while its load is less - has a finite capacity.

But he’s also being kind and not pointing out the elephant in the room that’s the MySQL server at the bottom - which I’d be much more worried about.


- Will