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newobj on March 1, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dodging S3 Downtime with Nginx and HAProxy

(To be clear, I'm not saying it's an anti-pattern, I'm just saying that calling it "no operational overhead" is naive)

zoeysaurusrex on March 2, 2017 [–]

Mince words all you want, they stayed operational when many others did not. That's success in my book.

soft_dev_person on March 2, 2017 | [–]

For an increased risk of going down when everybody else is up. Is that still success? And at what other costs?

It all comes down to risk vs. cost vs. gain.

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