There's going to be some brief API downtime today (~20 minutes) because I don't have time for frou-frou failover to the backup server; I have to replace some hard drives and then get the hell over the Sierra Nevada in a rental Mazda full of your data before the blizzard hits.
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Over the years, we've made the pool way bigger, but the straw hasn't grown much. This holds true at every level—the CPU, the storage system, the data center. So 98% of modern programming is figuring out how to get around limits on moving ginormous amounts of data quickly
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Many smart people spend their careers on this. Some solutions include: being really smart about figuring out only what's changed, not the whole enchilada. Or copying stuff to multiple places. Or just paying a king's ransom for the biggest straw you can get.
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Or if you're not so smart, you can rent a fancy Mazda (that detects stop signs!) and drive your backups and your Japanese robot toilets through the basin and range in the snow. Half the cars on the road are full of hard disks and Japanese toilets. Look around you.
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