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bushbaba on Dec 2, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: GCP Incidents

It’s about scale. Google was built for an order of magnitude greater scale where such reliability of a single link would be cost prohibitive.

However in general if you need high uptime, you’ll need multiple peering links. AWS and azure also recommend the same.

lokar on Dec 2, 2023 [–]

It’s more that a single link/router/host/vm/switch/etc can never be reliable enough, so don’t waste time and money chasing that. Build your software to tolerate it. This approach is pervasive throughout all of Googles systems.

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