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mlhpdxyesterday at 11:42 PM1 replyview on HN

Wow. Their experience could not be more different than mine. As I’m contemplating the first year of my startup I’ve tallied 6000 deployments and 99.997 percent uptime and a low single digit rollback percentage (MTTR in low single digit minutes and fractional, single cell impact for them so far). While I’m sure it’s possible for a solo entrepreneur to hit numbers like that with a monolith I have never done so, and haven’t see others do so.

Edit: I’d love to eat the humble pie here. If you have examples of places where monoliths are updated 10-20 times a day by a small (or large) team post the link. I’ll read them all.


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AlotOfReadingtoday at 2:41 AM

The idea of deploying to production 10-20 times per day sounds terrifying. What's the rationale for doing so?

I'll assume you're not writing enough bugs that customers are reporting 10-20 new ones per day, but that leaves me confused why you would want to expose customers to that much churn. If we assume an observable issue results in a rollback and you're only rolling back 1-2% of the time (very impressive), once a month or so customers should experience observable issues across multiple subsequent days. That would turn me off making a service integral to my workflow.

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