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This is the exact equivalent of distributed service going down or suffering latency issues and affecting critical downstream services. There are supply chains s
by remote_phone 7y ago
This is the exact equivalent of distributed service going down or suffering latency issues and affecting critical downstream services. There are supply chains set up but no real thoughts or solutions when catastrophic problems occur, like if China suffers a pandemic crisis for example.
I wonder if those things will be in consideration going forward or if we will keep making the same mistakes over and over again.
- icegreentea2 7y agoI mean, it's literally a coordination problem. Redundancy and resiliency rarely decrease costs in normal operation. If you're operating in a vertical, and all your competitors are operating diverse/redundant supply lines, you are at a tremendous advantage to defect and slim down. It's only when disruptions become frequent enough to model in a straight forward way (and also frequent enough to loom in people's memories) that we can expect a pure market solution. The same way tech companies rarely actually go for multi-cloud setups. Our primary system of incentives are not setup to consistently deliver black swan redundancy.