On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services

The system-to-administrator ratio is commonly used as a rough metric to understand administrative costs in high-scale services. With smaller, less automated services this ratio can be as low as

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: LISA
• Authors: James R. Hamilton
• Keywords: Administrative Costs, LISA 2007, Operating System, System-to-administrator Ratio