Interesting such a question-filled post doesn’t have comments enabled. (Not that I’m criticizing it for this reason.) I guess I’m not sure how relevant the par

Interesting such a question-filled post doesn’t have comments enabled. (Not that I’m criticizing it for this reason.) I guess I’m not sure how relevant the parable is, because while it doesn’t cost have coffee & a pot at your house — and you will use it anyway, and it doesn’t cost anything day-to-day to just keep it there — this isn’t true for, say, having a backup system just waiting to take over in the event of catastrophic failure. Then again, the Netflix strategy (3 clusters at 60% utilization → 2 clusters at 90%) is superficially similar to usually having an option of homebrew, walking, and driving for coffee, and sometimes just being forced to pick one option. Superficially.