Not too diminish the aspect which is particular to communist Czechoslovakia, but it is a hard earned tenet of highly available systems best practices to have redundancies throughout a given stack. For example, a storage system that has disks in RAID, dual RAID controllers, dual NAS servers, dual connectivity to switches, etc is more expensive but worth it in the long run if you depend on it.
Maybe that lesson hasn’t been absorbed more widely. Market economy perhaps gets redundancy for “free” (or cost subsidized by losers)
>Market economy perhaps gets redundancy for “free” (or cost subsidized by losers)
That's a platitude, not a fact. We just are moved to believe that the market is naturally redundant by propaganda, our governments in the west urge us not to look at the instances where it's not, like economic collapses caused by banks or other government investing groups that are "too big to fail."
Not too diminish the aspect which is particular to communist Czechoslovakia, but it is a hard earned tenet of highly available systems best practices to have redundancies throughout a given stack. For example, a storage system that has disks in RAID, dual RAID controllers, dual NAS servers, dual connectivity to switches, etc is more expensive but worth it in the long run if you depend on it.
Maybe that lesson hasn’t been absorbed more widely. Market economy perhaps gets redundancy for “free” (or cost subsidized by losers)