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Re:We Don’t Use Docker by darkwater on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @06:24AM (#26474928)
> There is a lot of business processes that can tolerate days or weeks of delay in case of such a tragic (and hopefully improbable) event. The trick is to know which of them can't.

This is really true BUT that kind of problems are OK - nobody cares - until somebody starts caring and then all of a sudden it is urgent (exactly because they were undetected for weeks/months due to their periodicity)

Re:We Don’t Use Docker by krab on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @07:55AM (#26475545)
I meant it's fine to take calculated risks.

E. g. we have less than 1% chance per year that a given person leaves us on bad terms or suffers a bad accident or illness. In case it really happens, it will cost us X in delays and extra work. To lower the probability of this risk to Y% would cost us Z (money, delay, etc).

If you do this math, you can tell if it's a good idea to optimize here, or if you have more pressing issues.

In my experience, this sort of one-man jobs gets automated or at least well described and checked for fear of mistakes and/or employee fraud rather than "downtime".

Re:We Don’t Use Docker by darkwater on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @08:23AM (#26475751)
Mistakes are "downtime" as well in a way. Or maybe better, downtime is a mistake, cause errors and lead to problems.