> Meanwhile, the complexity of our technology goes up and its reliability in practice goes down.
I don’t agree with this at all. Reliability in practice is improving at a phenomenal pace. 10 years ago maintenance outages were a normal feature of every service, and unplanned outages were perfectly ordinary occurrences. Consumers today expect a much higher level of availability and reliability, which they receive rather consistently. Today it takes much less resource to produce a much more reliable system then you would have been able to produce in the rather recent past.
I don’t agree with this at all. Reliability in practice is improving at a phenomenal pace. 10 years ago maintenance outages were a normal feature of every service, and unplanned outages were perfectly ordinary occurrences. Consumers today expect a much higher level of availability and reliability, which they receive rather consistently. Today it takes much less resource to produce a much more reliable system then you would have been able to produce in the rather recent past.