Post #2506735
2025-11-30 02:15 UTC
Replies (9)
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@yosh@toot.yosh.is 2025-11-30 02:28
@Schneems@ruby.social oh I love that - you're spot on
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@kouhai@social.treehouse.systems 2025-11-30 03:51
@Schneems@ruby.social @yosh@toot.yosh.is I was talking to a friend about how they handled redundancy at work, and it basically came down to “yeah we run identical stacks in 3 clusters, auto scaled for steady state 60-65% capacity” or: this is what it means to run n+1 redundancy! I think about this a lot when I look at “efficient” systems
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@phneutral@ruhr.social 2025-11-30 11:43
@Schneems@ruby.social @yosh@toot.yosh.is Some month ago I read an article about Deutsche Bahn (DB, German train operator). The commentator argued exactly your point! DB has since privatisation claimed to make its services more efficient. As a result it has become more and more unreliable. Profits for shareholders and management are up. Punctuality is down. Instead the article wrote DBs top priority (as a state owned company) should have been not „efficiency“ but „resilience“.
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@eq@mas.to 2025-11-30 15:19
@Schneems@ruby.social @yosh@toot.yosh.is In Sweden we prefer to run the healthcare system at 120% capacity, efficiency is king! /s
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@philsplace@mastodon.sdf.org 2025-11-30 19:59
@Schneems@ruby.social @yosh@toot.yosh.is If you are like me and snickered at the idea of a “Texas winter storm”… it is all about the rare event. We can easily weather below zero temps… but those aren’t rare here. (And we have competent people running our energy grid) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis
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@cinebox@masto.hackers.town 2025-11-30 21:25
@Schneems@ruby.social @yosh@toot.yosh.is depends on the denominator of your efficiency. Replacing a component with one that consumes less energy to do the same task makes the system more efficient *and* more robust
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@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe 2025-12-01 01:09
@Schneems@ruby.social @yosh@toot.yosh.is "Resilience." Redundancy is a tool for achieving resilience.
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@mikalai@privacysafe.social 2025-12-01 01:26
@Schneems@ruby.social @yosh@toot.yosh.is Canadians will attest that this is true not only in Texas
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@Qybat@batchats.net 2025-12-02 08:47
@Schneems@ruby.social @yosh@toot.yosh.is I would consider the Great Loo Roll Crisis of 2020. A brief spike in demand as people prepared for lockdown caused severe shortages and price gouging because the retail sector had established supply chains to deliver exactly the anticipated amount of stock to stores and no more. As the demand for loo roll on a population level is quite consistent and predictable, there was no flexibility in the logistics to accommodate this event.