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Amazon’s phrasing is “Designed to provide 99.999999999% durability …”

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/lat...

Andy Warfield gave a pretty good explanation of what they do to achieve this.

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FAST '23 - Building and Operating a Pretty Big Storage System (My Adventures in Amazon S3)
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December 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
11 nines of durability measured where? Serving-side?
December 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Heads-up: I'm getting a 404
December 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I agree. It also feels like a misuse of the interface mechanism for that single purpose.
November 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Naturally. A relic from a time when people wrote things down.
November 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I used to think of it like waiting for code to compile... but this nails it perfectly: realizing it can easily turn into a sparring match with the LLM itself.
October 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Understandably, I had to rush through that part. You can read more about it here: konradreiche.com/blog/how-tes...
How test packages help to avoid interfaces in Go
In my previous post, I highlighted two common misuses of interfaces in Go: interfaces prematurely introduced for abstraction and interfaces created solely to make testing easier. The latter, in partic...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM