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I really admire you guys for keeping it simple. I have seen too many outages due to piss poor "high availability" design, which would have simply been avoided b

by spydum 11y ago

I really admire you guys for keeping it simple. I have seen too many outages due to piss poor "high availability" design, which would have simply been avoided by not trying to be highly available! Damn, we really need a catchy term/phrase for that (besides ironic)

dang 11y ago
Thank you. Praise for simplicity is high praise.
- dredmorbius 11y ago
  As simple as possible. But no simpler.
  - dang 11y ago
    That's not usually the side anyone has trouble with.
    - dredmorbius 11y ago
      In which case I'm nobody. I've criticised a number of projects for overcompressing the problem domain. Larry Wall's written on this eloquently. And I'm not criticising HN's server infrastructure. Earlier discussion of style/presentation somewhat. Though for that I'm as inclined to criticise overdesign as well -- mostly on other sites, though arguably table-based layouts are a kludge.