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Re:Uber Freezes Hiring of U.S. Tech Staff as It Seeks to Cut... by nindalf on Saturday August 10, 2019 @04:24AM (#20660900)
Agree. It’s easy to have 5 9s of uptime when you’re not shipping any new features. In fact that’s the response that some companies have when their uptime SLAs are in danger of being violated - fewer features are shipped.
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Re:Uber Freezes Hiring of U.S. Tech Staff as It Seeks to Cut... by thaumasiotes on Saturday August 10, 2019 @08:04AM (#20661589)
> It’s easy to have 5 9s of uptime when you’re not shipping any new features.

5 9s of uptime is five minutes and fifteen seconds of downtime per year. That's difficult to hit reliably no matter what, because pretty much anything that causes any amount of downtime can easily cause more than five minutes of it.

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