Zebras All the Way Down - Bryan Cantrill, Uptime 2017
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Bryan Cantrill's Uptime 2017 talk on the engineering challenges of the stateful data path, including storage, firmware and hardware bugs. It uses the 'zebras vs. horses' diagnostic heuristic to explain why rare failures keep appearing.
Why HN recommends it: A perennial HN favorite whenever firmware, disks, ECC or opaque hardware come up, valued as both entertaining and sobering.
“As with all his talks, you can expect it to be quite entertaining as well as informative” Read on HN ↗