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Ep. 35 - Reliability vs Complexity: Where to Draw the Line
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Episode 0035 - Reliability vs Complexity: Where to Draw the Line
Reliability is often confused with availability, and Carl and Brandon dig into why stacking more safeguards — retries, circuit breakers, asynchronous queues, and multi-region failover — frequently makes systems less reliable rather than more. Every added layer introduces non-linear interactions, coordination challenges, and state…