[mschuster91]

> Lastly, needing to be able to quickly cold restart something is probably a design smell.

For everyone not at a scale to afford their own transoceanic fiber cables, a major internet service disruption is equivalent to a cold start. And as long as hackers or governments are able to push utter bullshit to the global BGP tables with a single mouse click, this threat remains present.

[cranekam]

The comment I was replying to mentions "at [Google] scale", so my answer was with that in mind.