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hilariouslytoday at 5:04 PM2 repliesview on HN

If you want to collapse just run a system at 100% for baseline, there's no slack, there's no capacity to meet new demands, you're just running a permanent failure mode if there's any perturbation in the system.


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xnxtoday at 5:09 PM

Efficiency is the enemy of resiliency.

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stuxnet79today at 6:52 PM

Except ... the collapse never happens. Once your engineers burn out or age out you just hire fresh meat and the cycle repeats. The issue I have with these types of articles (and books like Peopleware / Slack) is they never provide any actual metrics that may convince the beancounters to try a different approach.

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