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Re:Dynamo Systems Work Too Hard by crb on Friday May 03, 2013 @05:21PM (#5652710)
When your units of networking concern are "availability zones" (i.e. data centers) rather than just switches, wouldn't network failures now be more common than server failures?
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Re:Dynamo Systems Work Too Hard by bscanlan on Saturday May 04, 2013 @03:53AM (#5654416)
Agreed - the assumption is that the MTBF of a single network device is a relevant statistic is undoubtedly incorrect in anywhere but a hobbyist's network.
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