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Given how software is a giant Jenga tower made of smaller Jenga towers it's amazing any of it works at all
Well at least some of the Jenga towers have redundant Jenga tower replicas, and that Jenga tower over there has a bunch of other Jenga towers ready to be propped up by a PAASser-by given a small cold start penalty. And this one? Nobody knows how it works, but it always worked.
Right? ... Right?
Relavent article: How one programmer broke the internet by deleting a tiny piece of code
Oh yeah the leftpad incident. Was fun watching that from a distance