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If you don't care about downtime or reliability, sure.
by toenail 3y ago
If you don't care about downtime or reliability, sure.
- Nextgrid 3y agoMost companies are too full of themselves to do an honest assessment of their uptime requirements though. Every company out there loudly claims they need 100% uptime, which grifters will be happy to sell them knowing nobody will actually put their solution to the test and if it does fail they'll have a myriad of moving parts to shift the blame to. If you look at the very few things that do actually need 100% uptime (real-time stock market, etc) you'll note the absence of most "cloud-native" and supposedly "best practice" bullshit. The reality there is much more boring, serious and rigorous - that's what you get when you actually need 100% uptime.
- throaway2342551 3y agoYou are aware bloomberg presents at CNCF?
- Nextgrid 3y agoBloomberg is a large company with many different products, people/teams and priorities. But as far as I know Bloomberg doesn't actually provide order execution which is what I was referring to when I said "stock market".
- viraptor 3y agoThere are very specific reasons why real time stock market doesn't run in the cloud and there's a lot they're doing that very much aligns with best practices. Your example doesn't really say what you seem to think it does.
- SkyPuncher 3y agoI’ve worked a few places that clearly stated: * we are not mission critical for our customers. Let’s not engineer for disaster scenarios when our customers really won’t care if we have a very very rare outage. * our customers primarily used our services during US business hours. If we needed risky maintenance, we’d just do it a bit early or a bit la tree in the day.
- cpncrunch 3y agoIt depends. I've had close to 100% uptime with my single server, whereas one of my customers who has hundreds of AWS servers has had some pretty severe downtime (hours at a time) due to some screw-up on their end. Complexity creates its own risk.
- johnklos 3y agoThe discussion isn't about reliability. It's about resource wastage. It's a bit silly to try to change the topic of the discussion. Reliability through redundancy is simple, particularly when you aren't replicating multiple machines / machine images.