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Man runs snowflake server in the cloud, and is surprised when it fails. To be blunt, if you treat your cloud instances as anything other than disposable and ep

• chousuke 7y ago
  It's a good reminder anyway. There are lots of people involved with tech who genuinely don't seem to understand that things fail, even in "the cloud". As for pet servers in the cloud, not having them is the ideal, but it's not nearly always realistic. It's not "wrong" to run a pet server in the cloud if it's the only reasonable option you have given all other constraints involved. A real failure-resistant system is often expensive, and sometimes simply not worth the investment.
• fulafel 7y ago
  There's nothing wrong with running a manually administered singleton box any more than there's doing the same with your laptop. Yes of course you should have backups in both cases, but all out automating infrastructures of every experiment is likely work that will not pay off.