Re:Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith
by brown9-2 on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @06:48PM
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> From an engineering perspective, they track “number of successful stream starts”, instead of percentage of the time 100% of their services are working. That’s a huge red flag.
They don’t measure how often 100% or their services are up because perfect uptime is not the goal and is too expensive (if it’s even possible). If an internally facing service being down doesn’t affect a core metric like number of stream starts by customers, then it’s foolish to treat it as needing 99.999% uptime.
They don’t measure how often 100% or their services are up because perfect uptime is not the goal and is too expensive (if it’s even possible). If an internally facing service being down doesn’t affect a core metric like number of stream starts by customers, then it’s foolish to treat it as needing 99.999% uptime.