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No disrespect but you can do this for an analytics dashboard or a content web site with canaries (Facebook). May not be the best for high liability sites like f
by lazyant 5y ago
No disrespect but you can do this for an analytics dashboard or a content web site with canaries (Facebook). May not be the best for high liability sites like financial systems.
- closeparen 5y agoPeople hold up banking as the pinnacle of serious and responsible high-quality high-reliability software engineering and operations, but my bank is the only web property or mobile app I use that's routinely unavailable for hours at a time.
- mtoddsmith 5y agoDo you want your money managed by a systems that starts on local and goes straight to production?
- closeparen 5y agoCompared to a system with maintenance windows, yeah, maybe? Banking seems pretty forgiving honestly. Customers accept 3-5 business days latency per transaction. And even if you get it wrong the first time, money is fungible. It seems like it should call for more relaxed practices than systems that need to process non-fungible data in tens of milliseconds 24x7.