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Way back I used to work in telecommunications at a place that provided POTS service. They are two very completely different worlds. Software engineers act as if
by oceanplexian 5y ago
Way back I used to work in telecommunications at a place that provided POTS service. They are two very completely different worlds. Software engineers act as if 5 9's is a badge of honor, when really it isn't. When you are responsible for something that people use to dial 911 and can make the difference between life and death a few minutes of downtime doesn't cut it.
- bradleyjg 5y agoRight, and even five nines would be impressive compared to: AWS will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that each individual Amazon EC2 instance (“Single EC2 Instance”) has an Hourly Uptime Percentage of at least 90% of the time in which that Single EC2 Instance is deployed during each clock hour (the “Hourly Commitment”). In the event any Single EC2 Instance does not meet the Hourly Commitment, you will not be charged for that instance hour of Single EC2 Instance usage. This essentially forces the use of distributed computing for even small businesses.
- ev1 5y agoEC2 is absolutely not meant for this, though. Use an abstraction layer like Heroku if you're going to not understand what you're getting into. The amount of times I've had to 'advise' small businesses that are somehow running their small business site off a single EC2 instance's ephemeral boot volume is atrocious.
- bradleyjg 5y agoI don’t have any experience with huroku but what most small businesses need is a (perhaps simulated) reliable box on a fast network. As glorious as the paxos based present is, it’s overkill to the point of distraction for most businesses. The whole attraction of the cloud for them is not needing to hire sysadmins. Replacing that requirement with needing a devops team is even worse.