Most of military equipment is built to be able to operate outside the safety bounds, because the enemy in a battle is actively trying to push it outside these safety bounds and outright destroy it. Burning down your afterburner chamber and winning a fight is better that preserving it and losing the whole aircraft.
In a datacenter though your bets are usually much lower. Nobody is going to die, or lose many millions, if some of your equipment shuts down to prevent it from being damaged, catching a fire, etc.
There are though high-stake situations where you want exactly that: spend the entire amount of the resources of certain hardware to prevent a loss of life, or of untold millions, when you are powering a surgery chamber, or a large stock trading operation.
People who realize that do over-provision and pay top dollar for that when they can afford that. I remember that when a major fire occurred in one of the skyscrapers in the financial district of NYC, traders of a particular financial company were evacuated with their laptops into helicopters on the roof, and ferried to a spare office across Hudson river, in NJ. To minimize the impact of that, they connected to the corporate network via their phones as hotspots, and kept trading while airborne.
Of course one cannot hope to pull such an operation off without extensive preparation and likely regular drills.
Not preparing to a black swan event during a high-stakes event, like translation of a Superbowl match, sounds like either not having enough paranoia which is professionally required, or, more likely, as a cost-cutting after a wrong assessment of risks.
That sounds a lot harder than having half of each team in two separate buildings. If one needs to shut down the secondary team just takes the full load...
> (2) Think about hiring twice as much senior programmes, just in case. Good day traders are even more expensive.
Day traders are expensive? I thought a lot of those folks keep what they kill, and when they screw up they don't get to eat. "Coffee for closers," etc.
In a datacenter though your bets are usually much lower. Nobody is going to die, or lose many millions, if some of your equipment shuts down to prevent it from being damaged, catching a fire, etc.
There are though high-stake situations where you want exactly that: spend the entire amount of the resources of certain hardware to prevent a loss of life, or of untold millions, when you are powering a surgery chamber, or a large stock trading operation.
People who realize that do over-provision and pay top dollar for that when they can afford that. I remember that when a major fire occurred in one of the skyscrapers in the financial district of NYC, traders of a particular financial company were evacuated with their laptops into helicopters on the roof, and ferried to a spare office across Hudson river, in NJ. To minimize the impact of that, they connected to the corporate network via their phones as hotspots, and kept trading while airborne.
Of course one cannot hope to pull such an operation off without extensive preparation and likely regular drills.
Not preparing to a black swan event during a high-stakes event, like translation of a Superbowl match, sounds like either not having enough paranoia which is professionally required, or, more likely, as a cost-cutting after a wrong assessment of risks.