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masklinn on March 13, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go

> If one process crashes, it won't affect others.

Unless they're linking or monitoring one another, an other important property of tolerant and distributed system.

rdtsc on March 13, 2013 [–]

But that is on purpose. Sometimes you do want that. In other words they are explicitly set up to monitor/link each other.

masklinn on March 13, 2013 | [–]

> But that is on purpose.

Indeed, but I was pointing it out because it's important to be able to do it.

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