Why “Uptime” is being discussed
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Tbf, it's a little weird now with rolling restarts. I wouldn't call it downtime if there's a seamless transition to a new pod. Maybe that's not what you're referring to, but do…
by 8n4vidtmkvmk · Sep 17, 2026
I'm curious what kind of power distribution you work in. I've lived in suburban, rural, and urban places over the years and I've never experienced five 9's of uptime on the grid…
by cco · Sep 17, 2026
Coincidentally, Salesforce just laid off the senior engineering lead on their shared login service team who 2 months ago was describing the practices his team follows to keep 99…
by ubertaco · Sep 17, 2026
I'm comfortable enough with the Sydney and Melbourne AWS regions - about 700km (400 miles) apart and with (at least) 3 AZs in each. If something takes out enough AWS datacenters…
by bigiain · Sep 16, 2026
> 1% is 3.5 days I think that illustrates the author's point quite well. 99% uptime sounds good, but when you think about a 3+ day outage that doesn't sound very good. Imagine F…
by SoftTalker · Sep 16, 2026
> Can we stop with the uptime percentages? 100%!
by feurio · Sep 16, 2026
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Uptime is a measure of system reliability, expressed as the period of time a machine, typically a computer, has been continuously working and available. Uptime is the opposite of downtime. Read more on Wikipedia