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> 99.99% of all these outages are due to screwing up something that already works Fiber optic cables are a great technology, but they don't react well to being
by dodobirdlord 7y ago
> 99.99% of all these outages are due to screwing up something that already works
Fiber optic cables are a great technology, but they don't react well to being cut in half by a backhoe. Is the solution you are recommending that we stop using fiber optic cables, or that we stop using backhoes?
- m0zg 7y agoStopping depending so much on remote datacenters unnecessarily would be a good start.
- ithkuil 7y agoI'm a remote employee of a distributed company. Where do you suggest we deploy our code/services?
- dboreham 7y agoI feel a sense of karmic balance on backhoe fade myself, because after running networks for decades, I now own a backhoe. So far I've managed to dig up a power cable I forgot I laid to an outbuilding, and a coax satellite dish feeder.