Aiming for High Availability

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"My suspicion is the number-one cause of outages is human error and after that is badly tested apps, and everything else is way down. What we ought to be focus on in terms of high availability is probably not what we are focused on at all."

- Michael Stonebraker, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/13/michael_stonebraker_interview/