Cloud services like S3 are making programmers too complacent these days. Back in the day, every production web site had something like this "HAProxy" in place.

Cloud services like S3 are making programmers too complacent these days. Back in the day, every production web site had something like this "HAProxy" in place. Now, S3 goes down, and everybody has their thumbs up their asses because that wasn't covered in the Rails bootcamp they went to.