alt Hacker NewsI guess none of us really needs those 9s, and even two 9s are just good enough. I even doubt whether *SOME* of the banking transactions really really really need those 9s too -- like, I don't really mind if 1 out of 100 credit payment doesn't go through so I have to do it again -- it does happen once for a while and I just swiped it again.
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dec0dedab0de • last Thursday at 6:04 PM
I had an ATM glitch out on me a few months ago, I tried again and it confiscated my card. I called, and they explained that it is the failure mode to prevent people modifying them while they're offline.
0xdeafbeef • last Thursday at 5:58 PM
Retry is fine, but imagine being unable to pay for something within 10 minutes in month. And 10m in 1M is 99.98% sla. So it depends
GitHub has a container registry. That going down can cause pod start failure. I agree the source code probably doesn't need infinite nines, but the container registry is different.