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1. api · 1790683635 · focus · HN ↗

   I wonder if doing this to hardware would have overall been cheaper than doing the baroque Rube Goldberg shit we do to software to make it somewhat kind of fault tolerant… or at least convince ourselves it is.

   (You can write real fault tolerant software but a wad of tangled crap and hidden dependencies crammed into Kubernetes is not it.)

   1. advisedwang · 1790707935 · focus · HN ↗

      Fault tolerance is expensive, even when it's a single box. This kind of hardware is the wrong tool for the job because most use cases can tolerate some downtime and it's not worth paying 10x cost to get a few nines you don't need.

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