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What if hacker news goes down, more work gets done for the day? It’s really common to over estimate the cost of being down, while underestimating the costs of
by lostapathy 8y ago
What if hacker news goes down, more work gets done for the day?
It’s really common to over estimate the cost of being down, while underestimating the costs of resiliency. And in the end if you can’t fully afford the resiliency, you end up with a system that’s more complicated and thus less stable than it could have been had you just accepted a tiny bit of risk.
- _drFaust 8y agoextremely valid point. The initial setup isn't the challenge, it's the endless tweaks to make it fault tolerant. For anyone looking into k8s, take time to research best practices for monitoring and readiness probes.