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by marginalia_nu 16 days ago
Another thing worth thinking about when running anything in parallel is the rather massive increase in error rate. When you're essentially rolling 768x the number of dice, failure outcomes will happen a lot more often than if you just roll the one or two.

It's a scale that transforms a 10 year MTBF to a ~5 day MTBF.

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A great point, you will also eventually be in a constant state of failure, and have to turn that into something you can manage, automatically.