Imagine you're facing a wall that stretches forever off in either direction. We all know that the further parts of the wall look smaller than the closer parts. That's called "perspective". We tend to imagines lines of perspective aiming straight toward some distant point, but in fact they don't.

Consider this image:

If the perspectiv...
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"Five Nines" of up-time for a system isn't so hard to achieve as long as you don't define it as 99.999% availability. Here's a little comic to illustrate:

"Our profits are growing exponentially!" Sounds great, right? Not necessarily. Here's a little one frame comic I drew to show how exponential profit growth can actually be a bad thing