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We would count 7 hours as downtime too. Our pause was less than 5 seconds.
by stopachka 2y ago
We would count 7 hours as downtime too. Our pause was less than 5 seconds.
- ElijahLynn 2y agoLess than 5 seconds seems pretty reasonable to me to call it zero down time.
- tossandthrow 2y ago5 seconds pause on queries would make our app server drop connections and throw errors under cyclical high load - which would result in a incident.
- libraryofbabel 2y agoNice job, then! Technical downtime that’s virtually undetectable to users is a big win. In fact, “less than 5 seconds of downtime” in the title would actually make me want to read the article more as I tend to be suspicious of “zero downtime” claims for database upgrades, whereas <5s is clearly almost as good as zero and actually quantified :)
- awesome_dude 2y agoYeah - a quantifiable amount in the headline would change the likelihood of the article being taken seriously - it goes from "No downtime? I call BS" to "Less than 5 seconds, that seems reasonable, and worth investigating"
- _flux 2y agoOn the other than "less than 5 seconds of downtime" might give the impression that new queries sent within that time period would be rejected, while zero implies this doesn't happen, i.e. that it's undistinguishable from normal operation for the client. And being even more precise in the title would just make it less titley :).