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		9wzYQbTYsAIc on Dec 7, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS us-east-1 outage There’s also no reason for an internet connected app to crash on load when there is no access to the internet services.

mro_name on Dec 7, 2021 [–]

indeed.

A constitutional property of a network is it's volatility. Nodes may fail. Edges may. You may not. Or you may. But then you're delivering no reliabilty but crap. Nice sunshine crap, maybe.

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