North America was populated by a wide variety of great beasts, like mammoth and mastodons, both elephant-like creatures with big tusks, and camels, giant sloths, the list goes on.

It might strike you as logical to set up a wide array of protective systems and wait until the alarm goes off, but purely reactive measures are doomed to fail.

If the database goes down or if there are wide-area network access issues across the globe, the application is down.