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  • naeap@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    2 years ago

    I’m not sure if it’s just a load balancing issue. if all of Reddit can only access specific subs, maybe they split their servers that way

    but I’m just guessing, because it doesn’t make much sense to go down, when there is less data to process…

    • randomposter@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 years ago

      in a way it does, when you’re building massive scale systems. Say you are the mitigation team and want to protect yourself against a malicious hacker/employee that starts shutting down web servers or removes posting permissions from the DB for everyone. You’re going to monitor the frequency of posts and if it drop too fast, you know something’s bad happening. You’re going to take automated measures against it - maybe freeze access to the DB completely, maybe switch to a (much less tested) backup region/system, etc… so you can see how things can snowball from there to strange scenarios…

      • naeap@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        2 years ago

        yeah, well, maybe…

        usually unexpected situations have unexpected errors. so yeah, you could be right