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> No technology never breaks Not true. It just takes more effort to be more resilient. Totally possible. Think of telephone line.
by auslander 7y ago
> No technology never breaks
Not true. It just takes more effort to be more resilient. Totally possible. Think of telephone line.
- NateEag 7y agoIf someone cuts the phone lines into a building, whether with malice aforethought or a badly aimed backhoe, the phones in that building will not serve their intended purpose. I agree that degrees of resilience are a thing, and that different kinds of systems have different failure modes (each of which may deal with a different aspect of resiliency), but I am firmly convinced that no technology never breaks.
- auslander 7y agoDegrees is a key word. Numbers matter. What was downtime of your telephone line over last 5 years? What was downtime of Wikipedia over last 5 years?
- icebraining 7y agoWell, Wikipedia's uptime in 2017 was 99.97%, according to [1]. That's over 2h30m, so if this is Stripe's first downtime of the year, they're still in the lead. [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/technology/ https://wikimediafoundation.org/technology/
- znep 7y agoMy phone line was down for 4 days because they accidentally disconnected it when hooking someone else up and it took them that long to fix.
- outworlder 7y ago> What was downtime of your telephone line over last 5 years Assuming they even have a 'telephone' landline, are they even measuring? Plus, telephone is old tech. This is apples to oranges. You know what else hardly ever fails? The water supply to my house. But people have been building aqueducts since Babylon.
- duggan 7y agoAlas, even the mighty telephone line is not infallible.