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by markstos 1208 days ago
Right. You want regions to be fully independent, yet the software stacks they are running to be fully synchronized and consistent. So there’s a tension. If there’s a sleeper bug that wakes only after it has been rolled out to every region, you’ve got a global outage. Given the increasing complexity of these systems, it will always be possible to find all those.