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Lies! 89.98% has two nines in it!
I see two nines
Microsoft never promised where the nines would be
0.99%
Clearly you are not an llm then
Thank you, that is much more helpful than OP graph
I'm stupid what does zero nines uptime mean?
When contracting a service, usually there are clauses that specify that it needs to be fully working and available x% of time, and compensation may be due in case this goal isn't met.
Let's say GitHub was down for 1 full day in the last year, that's 99.7% availability. That's "2 nines", but sometimes people might say "2 nines five", meaning "better than 99.5% uptime".
I'd say that the expectation for a high availability service nowadays is "5 nines": 99.999% uptime. That's around 5 minutes of downtime in a full year. This kind of performance from a site like GitHub is just unacceptable...
These services measure their uptimes in number of nines, the more the better.
Maybe Microsoft misunderstood the assignment, and thought this was a goal. At their current rate, it’s certainly more achievable than the more traditional “five nines”.
As an aside, I love how the following is preferences as “casual”, and then the author starts arguing semantics:
Legendary levels of pedantry, gave me a real good chuckle 🤭
Ah makes sense. Thanks