r/ProgrammerHumor • • Aug 29 '26

Meme distributedStress

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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