Re:An update on recent service disruptions
by throwusawayus on Thursday March 24, 2022 @02:39PM
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too idealistic. invariably some team (or usually many teams) don't properly gate some critical-path logic, they depend on some functional partition always being online and then boom much larger blast radius than intended
then they fix it in post-mortem but pattern just repeats. i have seen it so many times! used to be much worse in the earlier days of the cloud when VMs would go poof more often
I disagree, functional partitioning is not a band-aid, but an architectural changes that in the end can reap much more benefit than simple data sharding.
>> your whole site is dependent on every single functional partition being up. it moves you from 1 single point of failure to N single points of failure!
Not necessarily, it can also be that only some parts of your site are dead while others work perfectly fine.