Quoting Randy Bias, The History of Pets vs Cattle and How to Use the Analogy Properly, 2016

In the old way of doing things, we treat our servers like pets, for example Bob the mail server. If Bob goes down, it’s all hands on deck. The CEO can’t get his email and it’s the end of the world. In the new way, servers are numbered, like cattle in a herd. For example, www001 to www100. When one server goes down, it’s taken out back, shot, and replaced on the line.

— Randy Bias, The History of Pets vs Cattle and How to Use the Analogy Properly, 2016

12:49pm on November 19, 2024 from Vancouver, Canada.


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