52 Minutes a Year: What 99.99% Availability Actually Costs
Everyone puts 99.9% in their SLA. Few know what it actually costs to hit it — and almost nobody distinguishes between a service that's 'up' and one that's actually reliable.
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Everyone puts 99.9% in their SLA. Few know what it actually costs to hit it — and almost nobody distinguishes between a service that's 'up' and one that's actually reliable.
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Fixed and sliding windows argue about counting; token and leaky buckets argue about bursts. Here’s the contract each one enforces — and why production systems layer both.
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Sliding windows answer the right question — how many requests in the last N seconds — but log-based precision doesn’t scale, and bucketed counters still miss microbursts.
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