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The 18 ghosts in your infrastructure stack that can cause failure (and how to avoid them)

What's this blog post about?

The text discusses the importance of addressing single points of failure in order to ensure service continuity and reliability. It highlights various strategies that can be employed, such as using multiple TLD fallback domains, employing DDoS prevention measures, having backup certificates, load balancing across multiple datacenters, handling in-flight HTTP requests, implementing rate limiting, and ensuring data redundancy across regions. The author emphasizes the need to invest time and resources in addressing these potential failure points to ensure a robust platform that can withstand unexpected outages or failures.

Company
Ably

Date published
Nov. 23, 2016

Author(s)
Matthew O'Riordan

Word count
604

Language
English

Hacker News points
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