Comment by reactordev

14 days ago

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.