Re:Fallacies of Distributed Computing
by mindcrime on Thursday April 21, 2011 @01:53PM
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I guess I took the implication of your sharing this list of fallacies to be, "A buncha suckers got duped by all the cloud services hype."
No, not at all. I'm a big advocate for cloud services, including AWS.
I do slightly disagree with your assertion that building in redundancy and failover mechanism is by definition "important." Important is a relative term and is probably more meaningfully looked at from a business or cost/benefit perspective.
True.. I was generalizing a bit, due to laziness. That and it didn't seem important - at the time - to get into all that. But yes, I agree... the importance of failover / redundancy / etc. is clearly a business decision which is related to a number of factors.
No, not at all. I'm a big advocate for cloud services, including AWS.
I do slightly disagree with your assertion that building in redundancy and failover mechanism is by definition "important." Important is a relative term and is probably more meaningfully looked at from a business or cost/benefit perspective.
True.. I was generalizing a bit, due to laziness. That and it didn't seem important - at the time - to get into all that. But yes, I agree... the importance of failover / redundancy / etc. is clearly a business decision which is related to a number of factors.