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richieartoul on Sept 19, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: How FoundationDB works and why it works (2021)

Requests to the sequencer are batched heavily. If the sequencer fails, the cluster goes through a recovery and will be unavailable for 2-3 seconds and then recover.

zinodaur on Sept 19, 2023 [–]

Good point about the batching! Any idea what kind of ReadVersion qps throughput you can get this way? And yeah, 2-3s unavailability seems fine.

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