u/TacticalObserver

Hi all,

I'm fairly new to Milton Keynes and also a first-time homeowner, so I'm still figuring out what things should cost.

I've got a 3-bed semi with a decent-sized back and side garden. Nothing too fancy, but it's got a bit out of hand. I need someone to remove a plant/shrub, pull out the weeds along the side, and tidy up the overgrown grass.

I've spoken to a few gardeners and most seem to be quoting around £70-90£ an hour. Maybe that's the normal rate these days, but it felt a bit higher than I was expecting, so I thought I'd ask here before going ahead.

Just curious what everyone else is paying for similar one-off jobs. Do most gardeners charge by the hour or quote for the whole job? And for those who have someone come regularly, what's the going rate for ongoing lawn/garden maintenance in milton keynes?

If anyone has recommendations for reliable gardeners who don't charge a fortune, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks!

TL;DR: During blue-green broker deployments with 50K+ partition movements, Cruise Control moves all replicas over X hours, then executes all 10K+ leadership changes in a concentrated burst at the end, causing client latency spikes. Looking for ways to spread leadership movements throughout the rebalance.

Background scenario:

We run a 9-broker Kafka cluster and do blue-green deployments where we add 9 new brokers and rebalance the entire cluster. Our typical rebalance involves ~55,000 partition movements.

The execution is sequential:

1. Move ALL replicas (X hours)
2. Then move ALL leadership (concentrated burst)

This causes a "leadership storm" at the end where thousands of leadership changes happen rapidly, leading to client connection disruptions and request timeouts.

Questions:

1. Is this sequential execution (replicas → leadership) fundamental to CC's architecture, or are we missing a config option?
2. Has anyone else dealt with this during large rebalances or blue-green deployments?