I wish they mentioned how long a full deployment takes Meta using this method, that seems like an important detail to omit.
> So, if you’d rather not have downtime with your servers, data centers, and clouds, follow Meta’s example and use live patching. You’ll be glad you did.
Maybe if you're working at Meta's scale it makes sense... But I think most well designed services and applications should be able to get by just fine with a full reboot of any single server. I can't really fathom the complexity of managing millions of servers though.
> So, if you’d rather not have downtime with your servers, data centers, and clouds, follow Meta’s example and use live patching. You’ll be glad you did.
Maybe if you're working at Meta's scale it makes sense... But I think most well designed services and applications should be able to get by just fine with a full reboot of any single server. I can't really fathom the complexity of managing millions of servers though.