&gt; On the one hand you have the traditional server&#x2F;sysadmin thinking about uptime and stability.<p>For sysadmins, boot times are getting increasingly more important. We&#x27;re getting to the point where we can spin up a new VM in &lt;100ms, thanks to (in part) systemd. This doesn&#x27;t matter if you&#x27;ve got a few servers in a rack, but it does if you&#x27;re spinning up thousands of VMs.