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we had to way overprovision to handle even momentary spikes in availability from any backing store. we aimed to run at around 20% unicorn worker utilization under normal conditions.

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But doesn't this sound less about over provisioning and more about optimizing the code you already had?

optimizing won't help you here, unfortunately. the process-per-request model is fundamentally flawed past a certain scaling point.

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