[jbnorth]

That’s spot on. I work at a large cloud provider and one of our larger eCommerce customers had an outage in a kubernetes cluster which handled the front end traffic routed through a large CDN provider. Well sure enough “just turn it back on” wasn’t an option since the surge of traffic was too rapid for the services and the cluster to scale out. They ended up having to turn the traffic back on incrementally to let things scale up to the point where they could handle the load.

[donalhunt]

One of the earliest incidents I worked on in the late 90s involved students DDOSing a university webserver in anticipation of exam results being posted. The server load was so high we had to pull the physical plugs on the server. :/