Netflix has a good explanation here: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/02/fault-tolerance-in-high-volume.html http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/02/fault-tolerance

Netflix has a good explanation here: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/02/fault-tolerance-in-high-volume.html http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/02/fault-tolerance-in-high-...