Part 1: The Setup — Building a 5–nines (99.999%) Available Platform
3 min readMar 26, 2022
As engineers, we strive to build platforms that are available at all times.
It is exciting to work on mission-critical platforms and solve system design issues that balance throughput, availability, and cost of keeping the lights on.
The most pessimistic you are about the availability of infrastructure, your applications…
