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A great illustration of this is the GitHub outage a few years back. They had a fairly well distributed application layer but the database topography at the time
by TheNewsIsHere 3y ago
A great illustration of this is the GitHub outage a few years back. They had a fairly well distributed application layer but the database topography at the time didn’t consider the failure mode, even though the application layer did.
That’s a realistic scenario no matter whether you’re bare metal, building out your own cloud, or using someone else’s. No amount of AWS/GCP/Azure/et al marketing changes that.