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How do you test failover from provider-wide outages?

I’ve never heard of an untested failover mechanism that worked. Most places are afraid to invoke such a thing, even during a major outage.



That’s fairly simple. Regular scenario planning, drills and suitable chaos engineering tooling.

Being afraid of failures is a massive sign of problems. I’ve worked in those sorts of places before.




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