Re:Colonizing the galaxy would be good
by politician on Friday April 14, 2017 @10:51PM
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Suppose your entire civilization was running in a single Docker container. Being a SPOF, that's not ideal. Now, consider scaling out horizontally by running on a cluster of a dozen planets. That provides a bit more breathing room for your devops team.
The website highscalability.com is a good resource on this topic of fault tolerance and availability. It turns out that a lot of what applies to keeping services like Google running applies to the entirety of the human race.
Re:Colonizing the galaxy would be good
by anigbrowl on Friday April 14, 2017 @11:07PM
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Species != civilization. TO treat humanity as a monoculture is to skate over some rather yawning chasms of philosophical disagreement between different groups of people and to assume they've been resolved in your favor.
The website highscalability.com is a good resource on this topic of fault tolerance and availability. It turns out that a lot of what applies to keeping services like Google running applies to the entirety of the human race.