To go to DR or not?
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I guess VSTS folks don't like visiting their DR's either. VSTS Impact due to Datacenter Outage in South Central US – Service Blog – Visual Studio Team Services[^]
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I guess VSTS folks don't like visiting their DR's either. VSTS Impact due to Datacenter Outage in South Central US – Service Blog – Visual Studio Team Services[^]
Yeah, in my experience, DR is something that companies talk about, investigate, and prototype endlessly. I've never seen any company actually implement it fully. The only exception being a couple of telecoms I worked for who did it for some of their backend systems. They came closest, but even they had gaps.
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I guess VSTS folks don't like visiting their DR's either. VSTS Impact due to Datacenter Outage in South Central US – Service Blog – Visual Studio Team Services[^]
Whoa. Total disconnect - when I see 'DR' I (internally) read Dominican Republic, since my wife is from there. :laugh:
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Yeah, in my experience, DR is something that companies talk about, investigate, and prototype endlessly. I've never seen any company actually implement it fully. The only exception being a couple of telecoms I worked for who did it for some of their backend systems. They came closest, but even they had gaps.
Work for a bank, alright a BIG bank, fully implemented AND tested, they used to pull the plug on the production environment and switch to DR an irregular intervals. Hardware suppliers love them, however they recently moved everything to virtual servers and DR seem to have been eliminated (I have no idea how or why and really don't care) .
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Work for a bank, alright a BIG bank, fully implemented AND tested, they used to pull the plug on the production environment and switch to DR an irregular intervals. Hardware suppliers love them, however they recently moved everything to virtual servers and DR seem to have been eliminated (I have no idea how or why and really don't care) .
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
they recently moved everything to virtual servers and DR seem to have been eliminated (I have no idea how or why and really don't care) .
Multi-region perhaps?
Nish Nishant Consultant Software Architect Ganymede Software Solutions LLC www.ganymedesoftwaresolutions.com
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Work for a bank, alright a BIG bank, fully implemented AND tested, they used to pull the plug on the production environment and switch to DR an irregular intervals. Hardware suppliers love them, however they recently moved everything to virtual servers and DR seem to have been eliminated (I have no idea how or why and really don't care) .
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Yeah, I've seen telecoms do similar testing and still fail in the real world. In those cases, it tended to be some overlooked component of the overall infrastructure. Back then, the telecoms owned everything up to and including the last mile, so they owned the entire problem. The trend nowadays (sounds like maybe with banks too) is about shifting liability...failure is always an option as long as you have someone else to blame! :)
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Whoa. Total disconnect - when I see 'DR' I (internally) read Dominican Republic, since my wife is from there. :laugh:
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long