On 11/7/15 10:04 AM, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> Steve Litt writes:
>> I'd like to discuss this. Now, after a year of thought, I still see no
>> benefit to "starting servers in parallel" except for boot time.
>
> Because you're thinking of the happy path.
>
> Suppose you have a few dozen servers on three continents, providing a
> user-facing service, using something like zk or etcd to coordinate the
> servers.
>
<rest of example snipped>

Not for nothing, but if you're coordinating distributed servers, your
system design is WAY too closely coupled if boot time effects anything.

Miles Fidelman

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