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by coliveira 3799 days ago
My experience matches exactly what Github says. Power outages can bring down even the best systems. The problem is that it is never clear what parts of the systems will continue to work in these situations, until it actually happens. Especially when you're talking about complex applications that depend on many moving pieces. The point is, the more complex your online app, the more points of failure can be exposed in these situations.