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Which system is immune to all downtime except the DC getting nuked?
by direwolf20 10mo ago
Which system is immune to all downtime except the DC getting nuked?
- reactordev 10mo agoProperly designed distributed systems. Challenge: Design a fault tolerant event-driven architecture. Only rule, you aren’t allowed to use a database. At all. This is actually an interview question for a top employer. Answer this right and you get a salary that will change your life.
- direwolf20 10mo agoNo, those go down all the time. AWS had three nines last year. Bitcoin had the value overflow incident.
- reactordev 10mo agoCredit cards still worked… Email still worked… Again, there are fault tolerant distributed systems out there that don’t rely on a single point of failure. That’s not to say failure doesn’t happen.