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Why mention an SLA if it's 99%? To me, "SLA" is an enterprise oriented term, which a lot of folks (us) don't care about because we're scaling horizontally and

• underscores 11y ago
  What does 99% even mean? I don't care personally if the data isn't available for 4 hours; I do care if it is not available ever again.
• dragonwriter 11y ago
  > Why mention an SLA if it's 99%? Because at least part of the target market for this product cares about quantifying the guarantee, whatever it is. > To me, "SLA" is an enterprise oriented term, I think that's excessively narrow in terms of who cares about it, but Nearline is clearly in large part an enterprise-targeted offering, so, even if it was a purely enterprise-oriented term, its appropriate. > which a lot of folks (us) don't care about because we're scaling horizontally and architect with failure in mind. Knowing expected failure characteristics can be an important input to intelligently architecting with failure in mind. > 99% for a typical non-scaling enterprise app is crap. Nearline isn't an app, its one of a set of closely related storage offerings that, by design, would usually be used in coordination with each other and possibly other storage systems by an app. For its role in that stack, 99% doesn't seem immediately unreasonable, to me.