Post Mortem: A single whitespace character

Re:Post Mortem: A single whitespace character by jlouis on Monday October 27, 2014 @09:10AM (#8515216)

This proves a very important pet peeve of mine: Your modern application has a highly dynamic operating point. There is no way you can deploy a system and expect it to be static for eternity. Back in the day with low interconnectivity you could. But today it is impossible.

When you build stacks on top of system for which you have no direct control, you must be able to adapt your system. This means you can't statically deploy code without an upgrade path in one way or the other.

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Re:Post Mortem: A single whitespace character by quesera on Monday October 27, 2014 @09:28AM (#8515301)

You're combining two issues.

Yes, if you let other people run your infrastructure, you are beholden to their operations decisions and schedules.

It is not impossible to design around that (new) problem, but it is sometimes expensive.

The trick is to know what external dependencies you have, and that is almost impossible to fully quantify in the XaaS and cloud model.

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Re:Post Mortem: A single whitespace character by goleksiak on Monday October 27, 2014 @09:18AM (#8515248)

True but that doesn't bother me. Nothing is static on the web these days and everyone plays under the same rule set. Keeps things interesting...

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Re:Post Mortem: A single whitespace character by jlouis on Monday October 27, 2014 @09:57AM (#8515428)

It shouldn't bother you. It is just how moderns systems are.

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