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There IS a huge amount of redundancy built into the core services but nothing is perfect.


DNS is always the single point of failure.

But I think what wasn't well considered was the async effect - If something is gone for 5 minutes, maybe it will be just fine, but when things are properly asynchronous, then the workflows that have piled up during that time becomes a problem in itself. Worst case, they turn into poison pills which then break the system again.




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