Comment by Aeolun

1 month ago

> A multi node system tends to be less reliable and more failure points than a single box system. Failures rarely happen in isolation.

Just like a lot of problems exists between keyboard and chair, a lot of problems exist between service A and service B.

The zero downtime deployment for my PHP site consisted of symlinking from one directory to another.

Nice!

Honestly, we need to stop promoting prematurely making everything a network request as a good idea.

  • > we need to stop promoting prematurely making everything a network request as a good idea

    But how are all these "distributed systems engineers" going to get their resume points and jobs?