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When the auth service is down, only new authentications should fail. Existing auth sessions should continue to function just fine. This exact failure mode occur
by vinay_ys 4y ago
When the auth service is down, only new authentications should fail. Existing auth sessions should continue to function just fine. This exact failure mode occured at Google in early 2021 which caused a fairly big outage but not as big as it could have been because of this design choice.