The Silent Infrastructure Killer That’s Breaking Your Distributed Systems
It’s 3 AM and your pager won’t stop screaming. Half your Docker Swarm nodes show as unreachable, but ping works fine. SSH works fine. The applications seem fine until they’re suddenly not. Your monitoring dashboards are green across the board, except for that one terrifying metric dropping to zero: service availability.
Sound familiar? Light traffic flows perfectly, users are happy, performance looks great. Then peak hours hit and everything cascades into chaos. Logs tell you nothing useful, just “node unreachable,” “connection timeout,” “cluster partition detected.”
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