Doesn't load for me. In UK

Interesting thought. I had not thought about this before. If there is a cyclic dependency (not saying there is at the moment) how would things play out? Do you just ssh into your own servers to deploy the fix?

For anyone wanting to have a fictional take on this subject, I'd recommend reading Dark Matter by Blake Crouch.

Definitely checkout Gitlab's post mortem from last year https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-database-o...

It's very informative and also dives deep into their "Whys" pertaining to the outage.

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