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Re:Is Amazon's cloud service too big to fail? by TrickyRick on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @07:01AM (#14909543)
Agreed, it seems like the software approach as well. You wouldn't want a class or a piece of code to be "too big" to fail, you'd refactor it into smaller pieces which can be overviewed more easily.
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Re:Is Amazon's cloud service too big to fail? by CaptSpify on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @01:54PM (#14912960)
It's really a basic engineering principle. Smaller and more distributed systems are more reliable.
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Re:Is Amazon's cloud service too big to fail? by collyw on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @04:10PM (#14914152)
This sounds like the microkernel / monolith debate. Except monoliths kind of won.
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Re:Is Amazon's cloud service too big to fail? by CaptSpify on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @04:23PM (#14914244)
It depends on what you want to optimize for. micro is good for some things, mono is good for other things. Neither is inherently "better", it just depends on your goal
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