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thisnullptr ◴[] No.45960639[source]
It’s fascinating to me people think their services are so important they can’t survive any downtime. Can we all admit that, while annoying, nothing really bad happened even when us-east-1 was down for almost half a working day?
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1. catlifeonmars ◴[] No.45961769[source]
It’s not that things can’t survive downtime technically, it’s that in _many_ cases (although as you rightly point out, not _most_) downtime is costly to businesses.

I agree that the set of business critical functions in most shops is going to be vastly overestimated by engineers in the ground.