Robert Gustavo

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If the entire planet Earth (and all servers on it) were swallowed by a black hole, tolerance of that fault would require web hosting in space — good luck getting that budget item approved. So it only makes sense to talk about tolerating certain types of faults.
Robert Gustavo
The servers dont care. The user requests will plummet to zero. In fact, aside from the minor issue of the servers being compacted into a singularity, everything would be great -- no failed requests! Good luck getting the performance metrics outside of the singularity though.
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Actually, interesting thought experiment. How much residual traffic would there be without humans? How long would it take to go to zero? Network might not even notice.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
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