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		renewiltord on Oct 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tokyo Stock Exchange Blackout: One Piece of Hardwa... Failover sounds like the sort of thing you just do all the time. i.e. at the extreme, you treat failover like loadbalancing.

ptr on Oct 3, 2020 [–]

These kinds of systems typically don’t use load balancing, they’re provisioned for the expected max capacity needed.

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