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> 99.99%+ uptime is the standard we need to meet, and lately, we haven’t.

Four nines is not what I would be citing at this point. (That's less than an hour per year, so they burned that for next three decades)

Maybe aim for 99% first.

Otherwise a pretty honest and solid response, kudos for that!

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I strive for one 9, thank you. No need to overcomplicate. We use Lambda on top of Glacier.

why go for 9's when you can go for 8s? you can aim for 88.8888888!

Hit that and you also master time travel.

I know you were going for a BTTF reference, but a Primer (2004) reference would be a better fit for a VC forum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)

Why? The number 88 doesn’t even feature in Primer from what I can find.

I agree the original setup didn’t allow for much else in the way of references, I just wanted to shoehorn in a perhaps more apropos time travel movie reference.

If you like Primer you might like this Australian time travel movie also, but I don’t think it references 88 MPH either. It’s a kind of Eternal Sunshine vibe and also involves weird tech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Infinite_Man_(film)

There's an old rant I cannot find at the moment that argued that most systems that believe they are 5 9's are really more like 5 8's.

One could have nearly 3 such incidents per year and still have hit 99%.

I always strive for 7 9s myself, just not necessarily consecutive digits.

It could be consecutive too and even start with a 9 and be all nines here you go : 9.9999999%

Lots get starry-eyed and aim for five nines right out of the gate where they should have been targeting nine fives and learning from that. Walk before you run.

"Nine fives" is hilarious, I'm stealing that for our next incident meeting.

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