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You're being downvoted because every system—no matter how perfect it seems—is vulnerable to downtime. Just because your system hasn't experienced downtime yet d
by organsnyder 7y ago
You're being downvoted because every system—no matter how perfect it seems—is vulnerable to downtime. Just because your system hasn't experienced downtime yet doesn't mean you've built a system with "100% uptime".
My laptop's hard drive has 100% reliability to date. Doesn't mean I'm not making backups.
- techie128 7y agoI disagree. The system has had a 100% reliability for several years. I know it is unbelievable but true. That doesn't mean it doesn't suffer from failures in one or multiple AZs or that it is perfect.
- segmondy 7y ago100% reliability needs to also be measured by usage. It's easy to get that if you have 1 or 10 customers vs a hundred customers. How many unique customers & transactions were you seeing?
- azernik 7y agoEven the ridiculously-conservative telecoms measure their uptime in "nines". Four-nines, five-nines, whichever. "100%" is not a meaningful target. > That doesn't mean it doesn't suffer from failures in one or multiple AZs or that it is perfect If "100% reliability" doesn't mean 100% uptime for all users, then what does it mean?
- organsnyder 7y ago"Several years" of uptime, sample size of one. Most people here probably have systems like that, but would never have the chutzpah to believe that they'd totally engineered away the potential for downtime. How often are changes made to the system?
- danShumway 7y agoMy laptop's hard drive had 100% reliability for upwards of 6-8 years. I'm still making backups.