On Jul 2, 2012, at 7:19 PM, Rodrick Brown <rodrick.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> People are acting as if Netflix is part of some critical service they stream
> movies for Christ sake. Some acceptable level of loss is fine for 99.99% of
> Netflix's user base just like cable, electricity and running water I suffer a
> few hours of losses each year from those services it suck yes, is it the end
> of the world no..
Actually calculating - understanding - cost of downtime, and what variations on
that exist over time, are keys to reliability engineering.
But if you plan to cover X failure scenarios and only cover X/2 failure
scenarios due to implementation glitches you goofed.
The right answer may be "relax and accept the downtime" and it may be "spend
$10 million dollars to avoid most of these". If you haven't thought it through
and quantified, do so...
George William Herbert
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