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by dilyevsky 869 days ago
Just in last couple of years I can recall DataDog being down for most of the day and Roblox took something like 72h outage. If huge public companies managed, you probably can too. I'd argue that unless real monetary damage was done it's actually worse for the customer to experience many small-scale outages than a very occasional big outage.
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Well the industry analysts and consultants who develop metrics have decided that multiple outages is the way to go as it keeps people on toes more often. And management likes busy people as they are earning their keep.
IIRC Roblox was using Consul