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roryirvinetoday at 10:23 AM2 repliesview on HN

So the entire business was happy to go offline for 2/3 weeks whenever their infra person fancied going off on their summer holiday?

By doing this, you're guaranteeing a bus factor of below 1. I can't think of any business that wouldn't see that as being a completely unacceptable risk.


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Aurornistoday at 4:23 PM

I agree.

I never understand the drive to stay away from cloud services for small scale operations. It’s not your money that’s being spent on the cloud, but it is your free time being asked to be on call when you encourage your company to self-host!

jononortoday at 1:24 PM

Bus factor 1 is rarely enough for "entire business". But if the GPUs are for training models, and their users are the data scientists that are also on holiday around the same times - that might indeed be good enough policy.