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2 questions in Fault Isolation.
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Fault Isolation intermediate
A design platform's synchronous editing experience and its asynchronous export rendering share a compute cluster. Exports occasionally saturate it and the editor becomes unusable. What would you change?
2 min answer fault-isolationbulkheadsworkload-separationcanva -
Fault Isolation intermediate Multiple choice
Fastly's June 2021 incident saw a valid customer configuration trigger a latent bug from a May deployment, returning errors across most of its network for under an hour. You run a multi-tenant API where one tenant's input can reach a latent defect in shared code. Which isolation approach limits the damage?
4 min answer fastlycellsshuffle shardingblast radius