Understanding when high availability infrastructure becomes a bottleneck
High availability infrastructure, designed to prevent system outages, can become a performance bottleneck when the overhead of redundancy mechanisms exceeds their benefits. Resource consumption from health checks, replication, monitoring, and cluster coordination can degrade system performance under load. The article examines real-world cases where failover systems consumed significant resources and offers strategies to balance availability with efficiency.
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