The Problem of Hidden Dependencies

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marcelsud · 6m 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.

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The Problem of Hidden Dependencies

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