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I think people way overestimate the business effects of maintenance windows.

• etaioinshrdlu 8y ago
  Disagree completely. Services that you can mostly depend on to never go down, and scale as far as you will ever want, are a huge relief. Like S3. We should ask for the same thing with rdbms's.
  • rhizome 8y ago
    The overestimation is in whether a company should be using s3 as an operational standard.
• actuator 8y ago
  If you take them once a quarter/year, they are fine. But if you have load patterns where you want to pay for what you use and not over provision the DB significantly then you can't rely on maintenance windows. I think we will get there eventually with even RDBMS getting solutions like Aurora Serverless but right now most of them don't work well.