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We used this. Then we realised none of our guys have any idea how to build systems that are resilient to the failures we simulated. So they swept it under the rug and just cross fingers nothing happens.

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Sounds like a project I tested once. All UDP, which is fine, but they assumed that all packets would arrive, in order.

So they switched to TCP before they went live and everything worked fine?

No, they kept UDP and crossed their fingers like parent :/

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