> What I meant by "not engineering excellence" was in relation to the original post, comparing how to manage production servers with the SR-71. Nobody should re

> What I meant by "not engineering excellence" was in relation to the original post, comparing how to manage production servers with the SR-71. Nobody should regularly operate their servers like an SR-71 or top fuel dragster. It's great to fly really really fast, but most people should probably not be doing that, because it requires making exceptions like leaking fuel. You actually want to run your server like a big slow complicated comfortable redundant jumbo jet on autopilot. Engineer here. It appears you've mixed up some pretty basic but unrelated concepts. Engineering projects are based on use case scenarios and design requirements. You've presented your personal and very specific usecases and design requirements and somehow assumed that they were shared by another project or that they even made sense. If your main requirement is performance and all other requirements are minor in comparison then the optimal design wont be a workhorse, but a race horse.