3 years ago

Category: Database, Architecture

Fortunately, the enduring efforts of responders over at Netflix, along with AWS where the Amazon Elastic Load Balancer service experiencing disruptions resulting in the cause of the incident, managed to restore services just in time for Christmas. If one were to think about the events that ensued over at Netflix and AWS that day, it would be comparable to all those movies of saving Christmas that we all love to watch around that time of year.

Yes, this is established, but this is also a fact that one need not submit to in the journey to building great products.

Now when thinking of statelessness in data stores, this is something that can not always be achieved.

This is where the notion of data replication kicks in, but there is an inherent barrier that we need to address and that is the CAP theorem.