{"id":1304,"date":"2008-12-12T13:46:44","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T03:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2008-12-12T13:46:44","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T03:46:44","slug":"the-probability-of-failure-is-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/12\/the-probability-of-failure-is-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The probability of failure is 1."},"content":{"rendered":"

While reading Baron’s take on 5.1<\/a>, I saw Mark<\/a>‘s comment and part of it stuck with me:<\/p>\n

And this is a huge problem when you run replication over a flaky network.<\/p>\n

When you have a probability of error, there is a number of machines you can run to ensure you *always* have a failure. This number of machines is much less than you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While reading Baron’s take on 5.1, I saw Mark‘s comment and part of it stuck with me: And this is a huge problem when you run replication over a flaky network. When you have a probability of error, there is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-l2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4264,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/27\/ten-years-of-libeatmydata\/","url_meta":{"origin":1304,"position":0},"title":"Ten years of libeatmydata!","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2017-11-27","format":false,"excerpt":"So, ten years ago (how is that even possible... it seems like it was just a couple of years ago), there was the first commit in the libeatmydata repository (now in git on github rather than in bzr on launchpad). 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