Casually browsing AskReddit just to learn the news that we’re all working for clowns. I’m shattered :(

[text] 8 points 11 hours ago but if you have a bank or similiar and need 99.99 uptime no matter what happend then an IBM mainframe is a very good choise. And IBm have a massive support organisation if you pay for it they fix anything anytime of the day. permalink source embed save saveRES parent report giveaward reply hide child comments 2 points 11 hours ago last edited 11 hours ago You could also just hire a regular devops team with collegetaught skills and have them build your redundancy on readily and widely available hardware backed by open source technology which wont get you vendorlocked like the poor souls in the banking world YYou should avoid it choosing proprietary IBM technology at all cost. Its almost always a very bad choice. The only good reason for doing so is if youre already prisoner from having chosen IBM proprietary technology in the past and your team existing structure is already constructed around it. permalink source embed save saveRES parent report giveaward reply hide child comments 12 points 10 hours ago Ill take whos never worked in a company with more than 6 people for 100 permalink source embed save saveRES parent report give award reply hide child comments 3 points Browe ago My ass Every company under the sun is doing running and then monitoring their systems using an open source stack. Docker. Ansible. Jenkins. Nagios. Monit. Prometheus. K8. Grafana. Or a system backed by it. Youve either only worked in very niche bubbles of the tech world or you dont know what youre talking about permalink source embed save saveRES parent report give award reply hide child comments 13 points 8 hours ago Clearly youre not working in any serious company if theyre relying on open source software. permalink source embed save saveRES parent report giveaward reply hide child comments