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Failing to account for bit flips and HW failure is too common in web/service coding. Lookup how Google dropped a massive Big Table instance in prod, and traced it back to a cosmic ray bit flip that made a WRITE instruction into a DROP TABLE instruction.

I laugh when I compare my day to day coding to that of an avionics programmer in the aero industry.



The "web" coding words falls for things like leftpad, imagine talking about bit flips.

It's sad how immature the software industry can be. It's been around for "only" 60/70 years after all.


I couldn't find it. Do you have a reference?


There are some examples here [1]. Dig as I may, I cannot locate the original Google source I read about this ~3y ago.

1. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc12/atc12-f...




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