The Cloud...
Somebody else's computers you have a no control over
Containers are so hot right now. So hot that they've just copped their very own cloud outage. And not just an outage but an imperfectly fixed outage. The SNAFU in question befell Google's Container Engine, which on Friday afternoon West Coast time had trouble “ connecting to the metadata server”. The trouble continued for …
Surefire way to lose 10 years of highly-critical company data in a few seconds really quick.
Didn't happen to me or my company, but heard of others who had the misfortune of that happening to them during a rm -rf * or a route * to /dev/null session at one of our major ISP's hosting VM's.