Can We Stop with the Uptime Percentages?

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More and more I find myself visiting service status pages, where I’m confronted with a wall of colors and numbers like this: 100%? 99. 72%? 99. 09%? 98. 98%? But the audience for status pages isn’t just infra people anymore. One requires you to understand the nonlinear significance of numbers near 100%.

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