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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

redundancy, rolling updates or byzantine fault tolerance in a monolith > naïve assumptions that one part of your system going down won't mess up it's overall usability by and large just because you've used microservices

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Micro services alone aren't enough. You have to have proper observability and automation to be able to gracefully handle the loss of some functionality. Microservice architecture isn't a silver bullet, but one piece of the puzzle to reliable highly available applications that can handle faults well