Reliable Networks - impossible?

07 Aug 2013 by Roman Heinrich

2 huge articles from Kyle about network partions and how it affects software vendors and online companies:

• Jepsen: Testing the Partition Tolerance of PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB and Riak

• The network is reliable

  Wow... a long list of outages due to network partitions from various companes like:

  • Github
  • Google
  • Bonsai.io
  • Amazon AWS
  • CityCloud
  • Fog Creek
  • Freistil IT
  • PagerDuty
  • CloudFlare
    .... and many more.

A very well researched article by Kyle Kingsbury, addressing the topic how hard it is to implement reliable distributed systems.

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