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		throwanem on May 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed database In my experience of Cassandra (working on an application client, not managing it), one FTE per hundred nodes is extremely generous.

bshanks on May 11, 2017 [–]

Do you mean that you typically need more engineers, or less?

throwanem on May 11, 2017 | [–]

The former. One FTE per dozen nodes is more in line with what I've seen in practice.

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