The Problem of Hidden Dependencies
1 marcelsud 1 7/15/2025, 4:40:35 AM marcelsud.me ↗
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marcelsud · 4m ago
Why "four nines" availability is mostly marketing in modern distributed systems.
In this article I cover 5 survival strategies including using feature flags as "business circuit breakers" to be able to instantly disable problematic dependencies in order to bump availability (or reduce damage) without any deployment.