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Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB by Joeri on Saturday April 21, 2018 @10:41AM (#16891583)
The best way I've heard it described is "complex systems run in degraded mode".

https://cdn.chrisshort.net/How-Complex-Systems-Fail.pdf

Basically once a system is complex enough some part if it is always broken. The software must be designed from the assumption that the system is never running flawlessly.

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Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB by qaq on Thursday April 26, 2018 @11:06PM (#16938192)
No doubt but that's pretty high overhead for many projects colo is actually a decent choice but I guess that's not a popular opinion.
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