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0 pointsmbrumlow6y ago0 comments

So you are making a case for smaller companies run by different people in different ways? So that we don't have huge outages with common systems shared across entire platforms misbehave?

When you really care about high availability and security you really don't want all your systems run with the same software, hardware, and coded by the same teams.

What does google (or amazon/msft) do to ensure a software echo chambers are not made within their infrastructure that potentially could cause mass scale outages by way of the same bug or bugs propagating through their systems?

GCP, AWS, and Azure is the grate decentralization of the internet.

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svachalek6y ago

Afaik, these are all as homogenous as they can make them, but there are limits to that. It's hard to move big, old things forward which creates some diversity, but that's probably worse than consistently running the latest stuff everywhere.

If you want heterogeneous environments you have to cobble it together yourself by using multiple services.

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