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neuroelectronic on April 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon EC2 outage: summary and lessons learned

The metaphor works if you pretend 101 is on the east coast and the 280 on on the west coast. :D

stingraycharles on April 25, 2011 [–]

The metaphors are still flawed, since it's both the route and the destination that changes, which makes things a lot more complex than just taking a different route.

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