Truly fault tolerant is not budget friendly. Guess which wins in the C-Suite/Boardroom? On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM Shaun Potts via Outages-discussion < outages-discussion@outages.org> wrote:
I think we're both saying the same thing in a different way.
Bad design is bad design is bad design. I think the metric is an acceptable level of failure.
Remember a few years ago it was some random data center in San Antonio or something like that resulting in a multi-day outage for Microsoft because some core service lived/routed through that.
The only guy we should be laughing at is the one who thinks he can design away all of these issues next year when his datacenter gets struck by lightning.
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