[Dshield] From security-basics: Hacking Coffee Makers

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Tue Jun 17 22:30:51 GMT 2008


On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:46:41 EDT, Moses Hernandez said:
> Truly an engineer would request an active and passive coffee maker for  
> absolute coffee redundancy.

Actually, they'd probably request an active-active clustering, so that a queue
of coffee drinkers at one maker can be load-balanced into two shorter queues if
both are working, thus producing shorter wait times for coffee delivery, but
still service all caffeine requests from one maker if one fails.

:)
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