undefined | Better HN

0 pointsClumsyPilot4y ago0 comments

"It is cheaper to design a system that must be up which accounts for a data center being totally down and a portion of the system being totally unavailable than to add more datacenter mitigations."

Citation needed - the same issue with testing, data races and expensive bandwidth come up.

0 comments

notyourday4y ago

At high energy the lead time for the components is measured not in days but in years.

ClumsyPilotOP4y ago

And so is development time of any distributed software system, and training time required to operate it correctly

notyourday4y ago

> And so is development time of any distributed software system, and training time required to operate it correctly

Software is much easier than hardware. If you are to start a project today in this kind of hardware, you will be operating it in 2029, without changes.

1 more reply

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointsClumsyPilot4y ago0 comments

"It is cheaper to design a system that must be up which accounts for a data center being totally down and a portion of the system being totally unavailable than to add more datacenter mitigations."

Citation needed - the same issue with testing, data races and expensive bandwidth come up.

0 comments

notyourday4y ago

At high energy the lead time for the components is measured not in days but in years.

ClumsyPilotOP4y ago

And so is development time of any distributed software system, and training time required to operate it correctly

notyourday4y ago

> And so is development time of any distributed software system, and training time required to operate it correctly

Software is much easier than hardware. If you are to start a project today in this kind of hardware, you will be operating it in 2029, without changes.

1 more reply

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse