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by Gigachad 1426 days ago
The complexity doesn’t seem to have really moved that much, just the output has absolutely exploded to the point where the average dev ops person is expected to do things that only tech megacorps would have pulled off 15 years ago.

It’s no longer acceptable for anyone to turn their service off for maintenance for example. They all have to roll updates out frequently and without downtime. They all have to scale to huge numbers of users and data. They all have to have almost perfect uptimes.

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There's online game, which runs since 97 and has profits around 20 milions of EUR

and they turn off their game everyday for 10mins :P

... what game? Runescape?
Tibia
tibia?
yup