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lossoth

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About lossoth

Backend Engineer | Large-scale Distributed Systems | Incident Handling

Interested in system failures and non-linear debugging.

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    This seems to be the hardest part with migration tools. The more they try to be "universal" (compatible with different providers, protocols, and configurations), the more edge case…

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    These incidents are a perfect example of how misleading "simple" systems can be. From the outside, it looks like "just a cache misconfiguration," but in reality, the problem is mor…

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    But this is a different kind of problem. With legacy systems, at least the complexity was somewhat anticipated early in the design process (even if it was incorrect). With automati…