Reliability: It’s not great

I wonder what types of RPS they are seeing that required a gossip based protocol to broadcast state around versus a more traditional data store.

I take it that it’s far more important that the local region know about changes than a remote region, which makes a mastered store in one location as the source of truth problematic.

I also wonder why these companies don’t backstop themselves on the public cloud? Failing into an AWS seems better than running out of capacity and some its services could be used in circumstances where an open source technology isn’t ready.

Yeah, reading the post made it seem like they followed “best practices” without really thinking things through. KISS.