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Architecture that Survives

Architecture decisions that make a system survive failure: resilience, cost, RTO/RPO, ADRs and serverless in practice. With code and the reasoning behind it.

High Availability Has a Price: Resilience Is a Decision, Not a Stack
The cost of high availability: resilience starts with strategic decisions, not technology.
Jun 20, 202612 min read14
Multi-cloud makes you less resilient, not more (and you can prove it with math)
Multi-cloud promises more resilience and delivers the opposite: more failure surface. Let's open up the availability math, see why the "if one goes down the other holds" intuition fools you, and go through the few cases where multi-cloud actually earns its keep.
Jul 16, 202622 min read

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