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> They replace unhealthy CSs very quickly and efficiently Maybe fixing the bugs so that they don't mysteriously get ill would be a thing to pursue?
by bombolo 3y ago
> They replace unhealthy CSs very quickly and efficiently
Maybe fixing the bugs so that they don't mysteriously get ill would be a thing to pursue?
- paxys 3y agoSilly engineers, implementing things like failovers and redundancy. Why can't they just ensure that their servers never crash?
- bombolo 3y agoMore like, silly engineers relying on the fact that they have failover, so they don't bother to fix the actual issue. But sure, you get a medal for being a smartass online :)
- 0xCAP 3y agoWho suggested they're not doing that already?
- AlotOfReading 3y agoI'm sure they have whole teams dedicated to that, but even perfect software would still need these sorts of health checks at the scale slack operates. Sometimes you just have random failures in hardware or the OS, or you need to migrate software around the datacenter without bringing down the service. This is a generic way to route around all of that.