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What would be the equivalent in software engineering? Loosing your domain name?
by focom 3y ago
What would be the equivalent in software engineering?
Loosing your domain name?
- smitty1110 3y agoWhen using AWS for anything, pray for the health of us-east-01. When that region has problems the whole internet quakes with fear. You never know what's going to break.
- _ea1k 3y agoI'm shocked at how true this is. A huge amount of software is only redundant by being hosted in mutiple parts of aws us east.
- chinchilla2020 3y agoThat's the funny part. It is spread around 'US East'. If anything catastrophic (or mundane) knocks out power/internet in that region it won't matter how many backups you have. It will bring down large parts of the internet.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoThat seems to indicate a problem with the decision making behind putting important things in only one region.
- rc_mob 3y agoI'm happy if it goes down , nice excuse to not get any work done that day
- trillic 3y agoProd database on a single server with a single drive
- hondo77 3y ago...with no backups.
- readthenotes1 3y agoWithout reliable restores. FIFY
- organsnyder 3y agoWhat part of "with no backups" didn't you understand? :-)
- scubbo 3y agoPerhaps the part where "having backups which are unreliable/unrestorable" is _more_ dangerous than "being known to have no backups", because the former provides a false sense of security?
- MenhirMike 3y ago"Good companies test their backups. Great companies test their restores." Learned that lesson the hard way a few decades ago.
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agoAnd stored under the developer's desk.
- butlike 3y agowith the power button lined up with where their shoe rests.
- qingcharles 3y agoA CEO once got up on stage to announce an important new phone to the world's assembled press not knowing that the picture on the screen of the phone was coming from a PC in a bedroom closet and the developers were sweating like dogs as they watched the broadcast on the BBC. I shall say no more.
- croisillon 3y agoOT: that's how i recognise French people anywhere ;) only one o for "losing"
- focom 3y agohaha good catch
- bragr 3y agoHuh? That's an idiomatic error typical of native speakers. People who learn English as a second language tend to do much better on the "loose-lose" and "there-their-they're" kinds of errors
- HL33tibCe7 3y agoFor what it's worth, in my experience the GP's comment rings true. I don't see many native English speakers making that mistake, and I do see lots of native French speakers making it.
- bmacho 3y ago> People who learn English as a second language tend to do much better on the "loose-lose" and "there-their-they're" kinds of errors This sounds logical, but I am not sure about it. I certainly make much much more errors based on similar sounding words in English than on my native language. (I believe I make a TON of such errors in English, and almost none in my native language, but hard to tell.)
- taway1237 3y agoI can confirm that as a non native English speaker I don't make this kind of mistake often. I think spelling is easier for me because I first learned how the word is spelled and only later how to actually pronounce it? And i separate homonyms like they're/their in my head because they're very different words in my language.
- KptMarchewa 3y agoIdiomatic error is "would of"
- rco8786 3y agoDNS
- turtleyacht 3y agoI hear "bus factor" bandied about. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
- barryrandall 3y agoEncrypting your data at rest and losing the key.
- stronglikedan 3y agoJesus Undersea Cable?
- strawhatguy 3y agoAn interesting question, what in software causes catastrophic issues when it's broke, but also designed as it should, like the Jesus nut is for a helicopter? Obviously many systems have a single point of failure, and can result in lost productivity, but is that designed as it should, or cause catastrophic results like a helicopter crash?
- NickNameNick 3y agoLoad balancer? Cluster coordinator? STONITH device
- cp9 3y agoBGP
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