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by matwood 1885 days ago
> why does a few hours of downtime ultimately matter

I think people know this implicitly, but it's good to think about it explicitly. Does downtime matter, and how much is acceptable should be a question every system has decided on. Because ultimately uptime cost money, and many who are complaining about this outage are likely not paying anywhere near what it would cost to truly deliver 5+x9s or Space Shuttle level code quality.