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Tldr: We made a single point of failure, then we made it super reliable, then the stuff it was doing to maintain itself made it slow itself down, then our singl
by jeffrallen 5y ago
Tldr: We made a single point of failure, then we made it super reliable, then the stuff it was doing to maintain itself made it slow itself down, then our single point of failure took down our service.
Would be interesting to compare this result to the classic paper on Tandem failures:
A. Thakur, R. K. Iyer, L. Young and I. Lee, "Analysis of failures in the Tandem NonStop-UX Operating System," Proceedings of Sixth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering. ISSRE'95, 1995, pp. 40-50, doi: 10.1109/ISSRE.1995.497642.