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Cold restart whole system after total outage

"What are folks’ views on systems so large where cold-starting the whole system is almost impossible?"... — M'colleague In A Slackroom Next Door.

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Hasnain says:

“In abstract terms, many Google-likes and Apple-likes and Amazon-likes are possible. i.e. if you hard-stopped one of those, odds are you can re-create things that behave like those. You are guaranteed to never get back exactly Google, or Apple, or Aamzon. But you can ground-up create verisimilar entities. They've happened, in fact (Yahoo, Nokia, Baidu, Yandex, Alibaba, Samsung, etc.)”

Posted on 2023-07-21T05:22:22+0000