[154362] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FYI Netflix is down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Tue Jul 3 02:07:54 2012
In-Reply-To: <B527AA91-1762-4364-96BB-08F66E7F98CB@gmail.com>
From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 23:06:33 -0700
To: Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown@gmail.com>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 2, 2012, at 7:19 PM, Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
> People are acting as if Netflix is part of some critical service they stre=
am movies for Christ sake. Some acceptable level of loss is fine for 99.99%=
of Netflix's user base just like cable, electricity and running water I suf=
fer a few hours of losses each year from those services it suck yes, is it t=
he end of the world no..
Actually calculating - understanding - cost of downtime, and what variations=
on that exist over time, are keys to reliability engineering.
But if you plan to cover X failure scenarios and only cover X/2 failure scen=
arios due to implementation glitches you goofed.
The right answer may be "relax and accept the downtime" and it may be "spend=
$10 million dollars to avoid most of these". If you haven't thought it thr=
ough and quantified, do so...
George William Herbert
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