sure nuclear carriers cannot be dry docked and serviced like a container ship but they can be deployed for long periods of time without refueling and other rout

sure nuclear carriers cannot be dry docked and serviced like a container ship but they can be deployed for long periods of time without refueling and other routine services. My point here is that the way you measure reliability is subjective and there are likely trade offs associated with “simplicity” For example, having a global signal point of failure, like keeping all of your api servers in one cloud region, or having a single database with no replicas is much simpler and easy to understand than a more distributed alternative. However, global resources make your system more likely to fail catastrophically when there are outages. There are trade offs here and _oftentimes_ in complexity arises in distributed systems because of reliability issues, not the other way around