On: Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap

[eschneider]

Failures in production remain expensive.

[rixed → eschneider]

I wish they were. Displaying an error message to the user, asking to try again later, is way too cheap in my opinion.

[Analemma_ → eschneider]

Do they, though? AWS and CloudFlare recently had the worst outages in their history, and GitHub is flirting with zero nines of uptime these days. Doesn’t seem to have cost them any business.

[zarzavat → Analemma_]

An outage is the best failure that can happen. The worst that can happen depends on the system but could be anything from a business collapsing because of an attack, your production database being stolen and wiped, all the way to someone dying.