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Re:Visualizing Meltdown on AWS by late2part on Saturday January 13, 2018 @01:52PM (#16140691)
AWS Advocates Eventual Consistency, and I believe offers less than 3 nines guaranteed uptime on many products.

We've been taught to build distributed system with unreliable componens and temporaral JIT eventual consistency.

Of course we can run production cloud-scale operations on unreliable systems. And single power supplies without ECC or RAID is pretty low on my list of things that cause outages. Most big hadoop/cassandra shops are running without raid and without redundant power.

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Re:Visualizing Meltdown on AWS by user5994461 on Saturday January 13, 2018 @02:27PM (#16140874)
hadoop/cassandra are replicated to multiple nodes by the software. That's a terrible argument for not using any raid in regular setups.
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Re:Visualizing Meltdown on AWS by late2part on Saturday January 13, 2018 @04:50PM (#16141617)
I suspect your and my definition of regular setups is different. My regular setups are stateless and automatically installed and configured.
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Re:Visualizing Meltdown on AWS by user5994461 on Sunday January 14, 2018 @08:40AM (#16144199)
Lucky you, never having to deal with any database or storage.
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