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by mentat 3418 days ago
Decoupled failure modes, unless you think there's a global "fail all docker data stores".
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There are major cascading failures with Docker.

For starter, failure modes are not decoupled at all. If one db hits a race condition in the storage driver on one instance, it's usually 100% guarantee that all other instances are sensitive to the same bug and it will happen sooner or later.

In practice, occurrences of a bug are highly correlated and usually happen in batch.