[jacquesm]

Agreed, reproducible systems are an absolute must and it is a shame that we are still not even close to having a solid foundation under all this mission critical stuff we build.

It feels like we are building these huge castles on quicksand.

At the same time I think the whole 'treat your servers like cattle, not like pets' is exactly because we don't know how to do this properly. It is the cloud equivalent to hitting ctrl-alt-delete to solve issues.