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### 1/n chance tried n times
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From https://theartofmachinery.com/2020/01/27/systems_programming_probability.html
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### Scale up, or scale out?
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From http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~mastjjb/jeb/or/queue.html
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If you only care about throughput, scale up.
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+If you care about wait times, scale out.