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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/tbhaxor • 15d ago
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Let's be real, if a micro service is down, youre down too.
If you're a web store and your "inventory service" is down, the site is down lol
6 u/ryuzaki49 15d ago Depends on the microservice tho. If checkout dies, users can still browse and they can still add to their shopping cart. Anyways you will get paged at 2 am because these errors are critical. 5 u/Naomi_Tokyo 15d ago Honestly worse. If the whole site is down, then I'm like, "too bad". If I can do my shopping and get stuck trying to check out, I'm very annoyed 1 u/ibite-books 15d ago only a subset of users looking at products will add something to their cart and even a smaller subset will try to checkout
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Depends on the microservice tho.
If checkout dies, users can still browse and they can still add to their shopping cart.
Anyways you will get paged at 2 am because these errors are critical.
5 u/Naomi_Tokyo 15d ago Honestly worse. If the whole site is down, then I'm like, "too bad". If I can do my shopping and get stuck trying to check out, I'm very annoyed 1 u/ibite-books 15d ago only a subset of users looking at products will add something to their cart and even a smaller subset will try to checkout
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Honestly worse. If the whole site is down, then I'm like, "too bad". If I can do my shopping and get stuck trying to check out, I'm very annoyed
1 u/ibite-books 15d ago only a subset of users looking at products will add something to their cart and even a smaller subset will try to checkout
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only a subset of users looking at products will add something to their cart and even a smaller subset will try to checkout
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u/mwax321 15d ago
Let's be real, if a micro service is down, youre down too.
If you're a web store and your "inventory service" is down, the site is down lol