I guess none of us really needs those 9s, and even two 9s are just good enough. I even doubt whether *SOME* of the banking transactions really really really need those 9s too -- like, I don't really mind if 1 out of 100 credit payment doesn't go through so I have to do it again -- it does happen once for a while and I just swiped it again.

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tormeh 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

GitHub has a container registry. That going down can cause pod start failure. I agree the source code probably doesn't need infinite nines, but the container registry is different.

	▲	mystifyingpoi 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Which should not even be that hard, because read-only replicas of artifact repos are trivial to create and easy to loadbalance.

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dec0dedab0de 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I had an ATM glitch out on me a few months ago, I tried again and it confiscated my card. I called, and they explained that it is the failure mode to prevent people modifying them while they're offline.

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0xdeafbeef 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Retry is fine, but imagine being unable to pay for something within 10 minutes in month. And 10m in 1M is 99.98% sla. So it depends