Arent mainframes good example of better technology that lost?
It feels like world gave up on reliable hardware and started fixing it on software/multiple hw instances level
It feels like world gave up on reliable hardware and started fixing it on software/multiple hw instances level
Really we just don't care about it.
Things like ecommerce doesn't have the reliability requirements that finance can have. In some cases you can be losing a million dollars a minute, and screwing up can result in the SEC coming to your offices and arresting people. You can't just issue a refund or a gift card to fix the problems.
And instead of dealing with the sharp edges of the CAP theorem you can just buy one big machine that never fails. It is the kind of decision you rationally make when eventual consistency means that you might wind up in prison.
Thanks for this argument. I‘ll put it on my shortlist.
> "Sun is responsible" for the problem, said a project manager at a large European bank that was affected by it. The manager spoke on condition of anonymity. "Their architecture was fundamentally flawed because there was no ECC checking on the cache memory. This is something you get in even the lowliest Intel processor that costs a few dollars," he said in an e-mail message.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2585204/sun-fixes-serv...