Lessons learned writing highly available code — Imgur Engineering
medium.com/imgur-engineering/lessons-learned-writing-highly-available-code-7eaf3d7aae00
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Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
After more than two years at Imgur, I’ve had to learn a lot about the principles behind writing highly-available (but not AP) fault-resilient systems. While occasionally some systems go down, it’s…