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mystifyingpoi | 10 days ago

While this is cool and I dig it, I'm really, really thankful for maintenance windows at the current job. In the real world, 99.9% of systems aren't used 24/7/365. Just do the cutoff when everyone is asleep. Then restart everything to be sure.

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embedding-shape|10 days ago

> In the real world, 99.9% of systems aren't used 24/7/365. Just do the cutoff when everyone is asleep

"Real world" being something that covers max what, 10 hours of a day? What about things that are used by the entire world? I think there is more than you realize of those sort of services underpinning the entire internet and the web, serving a global user base.

MagicMoonlight|10 days ago

Almost nothing in the world is used globally. You have a handful of things like YouTube and Facebook and the visa network.

Nobody is using slopwork’s new CrudX at a global scale.

mystifyingpoi|9 days ago

> What about things that are used by the entire world?

Well, for the remaining 0.1% - go ahead and use the fancy hot replication thingy. Sometimes there is no choice, and that's fine. Although that might mean, that the system architecture is busted.

ayuhito|10 days ago

> Just do the cutoff when everyone is asleep.

In this age, many smaller companies serve customers across the globe. There is no common “asleep”.