Just like there's models for servers "small count of big iron" vs "large count of ephemeral VMs" there exists two models for Internet infra.
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Geeks occasionally say "This would be better if we were still a widely distributed system!" but that is not obviously true.
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An argument exists that concentration risk is acceptable because the costs of building reliable systems are *astronomical*.
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