Sometimes Kill -9 Isn’t Enough

Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:00:25 -0600

If there’s one thing to know about distributed systems, it’s that they have to be designed with the expectation of failure. It’s also safe to say that most software these days is, in some form, distributed—whether it’s a database, mobile app, or enterprise SaaS. If you have two different processes talking to each other, you have a distributed system, and it doesn’t matter if those processes are local or intergalactically displaced.

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Sometimes Kill -9 Isn’t Enough