Re:Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more pow...
by rossdavidh on Friday November 16, 2018 @05:31PM
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True, but I think his point was more precisely that when you go long periods of time _without_ having those systems fail (hopefully in relatively small ways), you get trouble. If Visa/Mastercard had outages on a regular basis, no doubt our retail system would be quite robust to them...
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Re:Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more pow...
by __jahh on Friday November 16, 2018 @10:14PM
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not sure if this counts as a paradox but that systems that are more reliable cause more chaos when they go down . The person easiest to survive the apocalypse is someone who already lives it.
Re:Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more pow...
by barrow-rider on Monday November 19, 2018 @09:34AM
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I believe that is why Netflix has the "Chaos Monkey" -- to occasionally break things and see what happens.
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/the-netflix-simian-army-...
Re:Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more pow...
by NotSammyHagar on Saturday November 17, 2018 @04:07PM
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Yes! That is a brilliant point. You have to test for failures, it's not obvious - if you have failing systems occasionally you are already testing for failures.