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The other day I heard on here the phrase "cattle, not pets" used as how to treat servers. This seems useful in this context too.
by alexchantavy 4y ago
The other day I heard on here the phrase "cattle, not pets" used as how to treat servers. This seems useful in this context too.
- scruple 4y agoReplaceable cogs, yes, that's been the push regarding programmers since the 80s? Earlier? Plenty of articles and rants online to read about the phenomenon as it specifically relates to programming going back to the 90s, also probably earlier, too.
- fijiaarone 4y agoThe reason you have to pay for a cloud of virtual chickens, is because you can’t get decent bandwidth on a few free range beef & dairy cattle. A single well tended rack in a closet on-site, with a few single cpu servers hosting multiple applications, a SAN, and a fat data pipe could replace hundreds of Kubernetes clusters — if there wasn’t a cartel on network speed.