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This is why 99.99999999% uptime is a fallacy It is not really measuring the time you're going to be up. That interpretation is based on faulty assumptions. It'
by zkhalique 11y ago
This is why 99.99999999% uptime is a fallacy
It is not really measuring the time you're going to be up. That interpretation is based on faulty assumptions. It's like the statement "the sun will burn out before one bit is flipped" is wrong. It is quite likely that by that time, all the bits will be gone.
https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3067-lets-get-honest-about-uptime https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3067-lets-get-honest-about-up...
- istvan__ 11y agoYes it is without a date range. 99.999% / year means something while 99.999% uptime does not mean anything by itself.
- rdtsc 11y agoYeah it is bullshit. They just had a failure so now they can claim, oh it is still 9 9s it is just that it is over 400 billion years averaged, not like you assumed, 10 billions. So legally still cool though...
- DinkyG 11y agoDynamoDb never promised 10 nines of availability, so it's a bit silly to hold them to that.