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That's not the impression I got. Yeah, their takeaway was to stop using BinaryPack, which I disagree with. However, it sounded to me like they very much understood that they made the biggest error in putting all of their eggs in one basket.

Your system WILL go down eventually. The question is how will you recover from it?

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Right, this was our biggest failure (not the only one of course, but we are here to improve). Relying on our own systems to maintain our own systems.

We are dropping BinaryPack mainly because we're a small team, and it wasn't really a big benefit anyway, so spending more time than necessary to try and salvage that makes no sense. This was more of a hot-fix since we don't want the same thing repeating in a week.

That makes sense then with the additional context.

I don't know the details of your operation, but keeping your ability to update your systems separate from your systems is something I'd strongly encourage.

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