How would I use a load balancer to fail traffic between, say, London and Amsterdam with no fiber in place between them? Where would the load balancer physically exist in that scenario and how would it fail to the other…
No, there isn’t. The specification as implemented requires no invalidation mechanism, which means no such mechanism across all caches exists, nor will it ever. The long tail kills you in such a failure scenario, and…
For literally my entire career in SRE, well over a decade now, I’ve only interacted with systems that use DNS for this purpose, from small shops to parts of every HN reader’s life. That sentence in your quote, as well…
How would I use a load balancer to fail traffic between, say, London and Amsterdam with no fiber in place between them? Where would the load balancer physically exist in that scenario and how would it fail to the other…
No, there isn’t. The specification as implemented requires no invalidation mechanism, which means no such mechanism across all caches exists, nor will it ever. The long tail kills you in such a failure scenario, and…
For literally my entire career in SRE, well over a decade now, I’ve only interacted with systems that use DNS for this purpose, from small shops to parts of every HN reader’s life. That sentence in your quote, as well…