Inspired by the Sixth Labour of Hercules

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A case-study describing how a mid-sized IT company eliminated 20 years of technical debt to build a disaster-tolerant production system. It details practical engineering techniques and risky pragmatic workarounds used by the team to achieve high availability and resilience.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 6:07Technical debt problems
3. 13:21Reliability architecture
4. 17:29Network infrastructure
5. 18:35Database reliability
6. 22:53Monitoring and metrics
7. 25:04Current tasks and growth
8. 26:29Q&A

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