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Nothing much happens if SO goes down, they are not doing a ton of business transactions.

• fishnchips 7y ago
  Nothing much? The world stops producing software:)
  • sgt 7y ago
    He's got a point though. Ironically the world's most highly scaled software are often fairly unimportant. Think Facebook - people would get annoyed if it went down for a day, but it'd soon be forgotten. Your banks are built with less scalable software but is much more critical.
• pnako 7y ago
  That's right. As opposed to stock exchange software, which runs on complex micro-services cloud k8s thing-as-a-thing virtualized rotozooming engines. Wait, no, it's literally just good-old n-tier architecture with one big server process and some database backend. Pet food delivery startups use k8s to manage their MEAN stack. Meanwhile grown-ups still have "monoliths" connected to something like Oracle, DB2 or MS SQL server, because that's obviously the most reliable setup. The cloud/k8s stuff is an ad-hoc wannabe mainframe built on shaky foundations.
  • rumanator 7y ago
    > Meanwhile grown-ups still have "monoliths" connected to something like Oracle, DB2 or MS SQL server, because that's obviously the most reliable setup. More often than not they just crystalized their 90s knowledge and just pretended there aren't better tools for the job because it would take some work to adopt them and no one notices it in their work anyway. The "Oracle" keyword is a telltale sign.