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At that scale any blip on the node cut out millions of users? no one sane would do that with a single box.
by Thaxll 4y ago
At that scale any blip on the node cut out millions of users? no one sane would do that with a single box.
- blackoil 4y agoKeep a replica.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoYou can still do primary/stand-by replication. If you actually crunch the numbers, you'll see that the likelihood of multiple node simultaneous failure of a larger cluster is actually often as high, or higher than the likelihood of a single node failure on a non-distributed application. Despite running redundant distributed set-ups, services today really don't have particularly spectacular availability. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Github; all go down or brown out frequently.