Comment by reassess_blind

Everyone loves to criticise downtime when it happens to others, saying these are “junior level mistakes” and so on. Until it happens to them, and then there’s a convenient excuse as to why it was either unavoidable or unforeseeable. Truth is humans make mistakes and the expectations are too high.

When a brick and mortar business has to shut unexpectedly they’ll put a sign on the door, apologise and that’s that. Only in tech do we stress so much about a few hours per year. I wish everyone would relax a bit.