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by chasd00
210 days ago
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> Also the conclusion on Jurassic Park is wrong. Hammond "spared no expense" yet Nedry was a single point of failure? Seems like they spared at least some expense in the IT department Even if they did "spare no expense" they could have wound up in the same situation. I see this a lot, "it would be better if only we spent more money" but the only thing casually related to increasing expense is increased withdrawals from the bank account. Spending more money doesn't guarantee a better outcome see US public schools for example. edit: coming back to this.
Was the Cloudflare outage really caused by reading a file that was over 200 lines when the process can only handle a max of 200? That's a good example, I'm sure Cloudflare spared no expense in that part of their infrastructure yet here they are (or were). |
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Almost everyone developing software spares some expense. It's maybe the main argument you can make for why it's engineering vs not. It's a cost-benefit tradeoff.
Cloudflare isn't doing e.g. super expensive formally verified software up and down its whole stack, practically nobody does that.