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Re:Operating a large distributed system in a reliable way: p... by madhadron on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @04:47PM (#20463832)
> If you've designed software where the whole service can degrade based on the CPU consumption of a single machine, that right there is your problem and no amount of alerting can help you.

Unless it's your database.

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Re:Operating a large distributed system in a reliable way: p... by learnfromstory on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @04:48PM (#20463851)
If you have "the database" then you're fucked anyway and probably your thing isn't on the scale that we are discussing.
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Re:Operating a large distributed system in a reliable way: p... by cameronbrown on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @04:51PM (#20463873)
If you're using a sharded SQL database then a single machine going bad could still affect thousands of people.
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