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freamon@endlesstalk.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• x0x7@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks

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• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You know that happens with centralised sites too, right? It’s invisible because all the redundant servers are behind the same domain name.

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  • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think they were talking about actual physical hardware.

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    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Large centralised systems have international mirrors, you know that right?

      And even if they were somehow all in the same building, that wouldn’t be a good thing. Redundancy makes a service robust, and copying data isn’t exactly difficult.

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      • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m commenting on the impression that the guy was talking about the fact that the system is not federated, not that he was talking about physical hardware.

        For what it’s worth, I’m a senior developer who spent 8 years at Amazon partially working on developing and scaling systems that received millions of requests per day.

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