A developer’s definition of high availability:
Rohan Malhotra
Staff Engineer @ Orbitly | Distributed systems, Go, Postgres | Writing about architecture tradeoffs
A developer’s definition of high availability:
Me: “We need to make sure the system never goes down.”
Senior Engineer: “Great. What happens if the database goes down?”
Me: “We have a replica.”
Senior Engineer: “What if the replica goes down?”
Me: “We have a backup.”
Senior Engineer: “What if the backup fails?”
Me: “I’ll fix it.”
Senior Engineer: “And what if YOU go down?”
Me: “Deploy another developer.” 💀😂
Lesson learned: Even your disaster recovery plan needs a disaster recovery plan.
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