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patrickhamann

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Software engineer @ incident.io. Ex-Fastly, FT, The Guardian.
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patrickhamann··on Don't add a read replica until you've read this
Disclosure: I work at incident.io with the author. My favourite part of how we implemented this is that consistency stopped being something engineers had to continuously think about and became part of the Go context object in our codebase; so any subsequent write in the same context taints without them having to think, and tainted reads go to the primary.