> Technologists describe their systems as having “uptime” and measure it in “nines”, such as “We have five nines of uptime”, which means that a system has 99.999% uptime or, equivalently, about five minutes of downtime per year. Five nines is admirable in many circumstances and would be considered _disastrously_ below expectations for e.g. Google Search.
This seems wrong? 5 9s is probably a reasonable benchmark or even unattained goal for Google Search, right?