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		ojbyrne on Sept 18, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Digg Database Architecture I think that you definitely want an architecture that can handle random failures of database servers. Thus you never know exactly how many you have at a specific time. That's the whole point.

axod on Sept 18, 2008 [–]

"you never know exactly how many you have at a specific time."

This is a completely unmeasurable quantity is it??

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