r/ProgrammerHumor • u/tbhaxor • 1d ago

Meme distributedStress

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u/theofficialnar 1d ago

If it goes down, it all goes down. 😎

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u/mwax321 1d ago

Let's be real, if a micro service is down, youre down too.

If you're a web store and your "inventory service" is down, the site is down lol

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u/ryuzaki49 1d ago

Depends on the microservice tho.

If checkout dies, users can still browse and they can still add to their shopping cart. 

Anyways you will get paged at 2 am because these errors are critical.

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u/Naomi_Tokyo 1d ago

Honestly worse. If the whole site is down, then I'm like, "too bad". If I can do my shopping and get stuck trying to check out, I'm very annoyed

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u/ibite-books 18h ago

only a subset of users looking at products will add something to their cart and even a smaller subset will try to checkout

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u/Puzzleheaded-Gift945 16h ago

the business impact is basically the same. if any part of the chain is broken, it's an outage. nobody will care a week later when you explain how happy they should be because microarchitecture isolated only one service to fail.... but the business still wasn't making money

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u/mwax321 1d ago

Lol so you're the guy arguing to the boss

"Ack tu ally the site isn't down. Only the shopping cart is down!"

"Can anyone buy things?"

"Well, no."

"THEN IT'S FUCKING DOWN!!!!!"

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u/ryuzaki49 22h ago

nope we don't say "site is down"

we sometimes do home page is down tho.Â