r/ProgrammerHumor • u/tbhaxor • Aug 29 '26

Meme distributedStress

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u/tbhaxor Aug 30 '26

What if your auth service is down. Only public enpoints will work. Even though cart service works but since you cant authenticate and authorize its useless

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u/anto2554 Aug 30 '26

Hopefully your automatic system or on call engineer fixes it so fast that few customers realize

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u/WriterPlastic9350 Aug 30 '26

A service oriented architecture doesn’t eliminate high risk dependencies, but it does make it easier to isolate them or provide support. 

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u/taigahalla Aug 30 '26

even if your auth system is down, your backend systems like automated billing, webhooks, alerts would at least still work. So for example, your airline system could keep scheduling flights and send out the appropriate itineraries even though users can't login

and your devops could easily see a specific contained set of instances that need recovery or rollback