Comment by direwolf20

13 days ago

Which system is immune to all downtime except the DC getting nuked?

Properly designed distributed systems.

Challenge: Design a fault tolerant event-driven architecture. Only rule, you aren’t allowed to use a database. At all. This is actually an interview question for a top employer. Answer this right and you get a salary that will change your life.

  • No, those go down all the time. AWS had three nines last year. Bitcoin had the value overflow incident.

    • Credit cards still worked…

      Email still worked…

      Again, there are fault tolerant distributed systems out there that don’t rely on a single point of failure.

      That’s not to say failure doesn’t happen.