Should you put all your eggs in a basket or build a link chain?
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I’m a site reliability engineer and so notions of reliability are something that I profess to be somewhat obsessed with. I was therefore very interested when I overhead a recent water cooler conversation between 2 engineers (whom I’m not acquainted with) that went something like this:
Kim: The users wanted more reliability, so we refactored our app into a hundred independent microservices! …
David: Wouldn’t that make it more prone to failure since you now have more possible points of failure? …
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