“We need to spin up a few more instants of the service.”
Confusables Entry 217 / 1011 60-second read
Instance vs. Instants
An example/occurrence versus short periods of time.
The comparisoni
“We need to spin up a few more instances of the service.”
The ruleii
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INSTANCE = an example or single occurrence (also a VM/container).
In cloud computing, we talk about 'EC2 instances,' but people often think of 'instant' (fast) and use the wrong plural.
Memory aidiii
Remember it like this
InstanCE = OcCurrenCE. InstanTS = TimeS.