> Usually its just cheaper to be down for an hour or two, versus architect for the end of times
The opposite of this philosophy was the motivation behind creation of the internet in the first place.
The opposite of this philosophy was the motivation behind creation of the internet in the first place.
http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoen...
https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
[thanks for the hint 'thinkpad20! I don't know what I was thinking.]
The internet is designed to be highly fault tolerant, because it was based on an arpanet project to design a network that would NOT go down, even if there was damage to a significant percentage of nodes.
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs240/old/sp2014/readings/wor...
It's funny, my original comment had the links in plaintext so copying-and-pasting was required and Referer wasn't involved. I changed that on request. b^)