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> a high rate of randomly-timed failures is a kind of degraded experience, but not as critical as blocky patches of downtime Do you think that's an accurate ge
by allanbreyes 7y ago
> a high rate of randomly-timed failures is a kind of degraded experience, but not as critical as blocky patches of downtime
Do you think that's an accurate generalization for all software and business contexts? I think a novel insight about the paper is that windowed user uptime is able to visualize the differences. (See Figure 20 from the paper.)
- johannes1234321 7y agoIt certainly is not - a trade might not care about 99% of the time, but the exact moment they want to do a trade the system must work. Whereas of some GitHub request fails and I retry it's a minor annoyance, but in most cases I won't even know whether that was GitHub's flaw, my local system or some networking in between.