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"""For what it's worth, hardware doesn't provide an IOPS/latency SLA either ;)."""

Actually it really does for all practical purposes.

When it fails its SLA you replace it.




On the storage front, even enterprise grade SSDs with hundreds of thousands of 4k read and write IOPs set up in over-provisioned arrays won't give you a great SLA unless you really lowball it and say the SLA is 99th percentile latency / IOPS is 1/2 benchmarked and the hardware has to sustain that latency/IOPS for 99.99% (after benchmarking out to figure out cache vs sustained performance)

That's just storage, now you need to add so many layers on top of it. Like @boulos said, it is then your fault, but your customers still see the issues.




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