high availability - No Kill Switch

2 years agoin high availability, architecture

When the sky is falling ... Graceful Degradation

This blog post is all about ... reducing risk versus narrowing ground zero area, operability, what does it mean that software should be built like ship hulls, that resilience analysis doesn't start with deployment units, how well-designed systems are prepared for…

5 years agoin software development, high availability, fail fast, let it crash

The myth of infallible system

What I'm going to write below is nothing new for anyone who've done fully fledged distributed systems development. BEAM veterans, hAkkers, Rafters, ZooKeeper consensus pursuers or Paxos tribe would probably call me Cpt. Obvious, but surprisingly (or not) majority of…