Relevant: "Reliability: It's not great" from last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35044516 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35044516 They even

Relevant: "Reliability: It's not great" from last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35044516 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35044516 They even specifically call out Consul as a source of trouble. > We propagate app instance and health information across all our regions. That’s how our proxies know where to route requests, and how our DNS servers know what names to give out. > We started out using HashiCorp Consul for this. But we were shoehorning Consul, which has a centralized server model design for individual data center deployments, into a global service discovery role it wasn’t suited for. The result: continuously stale data, a proxy that would route to old expired interfaces, and private DNS that would routinely have stale entries.