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You achieve availability by redundancy, not by running around with shotgun murdering your cattle.
by ilyt 3y ago
You achieve availability by redundancy, not by running around with shotgun murdering your cattle.
- chronid 3y agoDefinitely have multiple replicas, and recreate misbehaving ones, saving logs and data for later analysis. If you can't have that (and budget allows) keep unhealthy replicas alive and pull them off the load balancers. In my experience option one works best, and makes option two redundant. Unknown unknowns are a thing, but that's true even when the unhealthy replicas are kept around.