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I have known dairy farmers to name each one of their 4-500 head personally. Never seen that with beef cattle farmers though..
by cam_l 9y ago
I have known dairy farmers to name each one of their 4-500 head personally. Never seen that with beef cattle farmers though..
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- mulmen 9y agoWhat kind of cattle do you think servers most resemble?
- cam_l 9y agoHa! Excellent point. Though with all the milking machines hooked up the dairy cows probably look more like them visually speaking.. And these days servers might be more metaphorically close, increasingly, to just the beef itself. Decentralised, to somewhat stretch the analogy.
- laumars 9y agoIf the servers are immutable (eg in auto-scale groups) then it's more like beef cattle because you don't expect your servers / cattle to survive to old age. If they are any servers that cannot be auto created / destroyed without human oversight - or if their downtime breaks other resources along the chain (eg non-clustered DB server) then I'd argue those servers are a little more like dairy cattle.
- twic 9y agoGoats.
- stuntbagder 9y agohow long before all the servers get foot and mouth and you have to put them all down .. ?
- jasonkester 9y agoI've personally eaten a roast from a cow named Luke, at a beef farmer's house. It certainly happens. He was tasty.