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"Essentially, we're going to fail. It happens. Might as well get it out of the way. Secondly, failure averse cultures don't actually prevent failures, and they have a tendency to squash innovation."

That's a very interesting philosophy ... I wonder how that idea, in general, relates to clusters ?

I've seen organizations pour lots of time and resources and brain power into chasing nines on their uptime and they all have outages. And those outages are particularly painful due to the complexity that had to be added - complexity that sometimes grows non-linear in relation to the "nines gained".

I've always leaned towards building dumb things that failed simply. They're going to fail anyway ...




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