High-Availability Deployment: The Trade-offs That Matter

Every team building mission-critical infrastructure eventually faces the same question: how much availability is enough, and what are you willing to pay for it? The trade-offs around replication, failover, latency, and cost are rarely as straightforward as the architecture diagrams suggest. In this episode, Melissa Czapiga sits down with engineers who've made these calls in production to unpack the decisions that actually matter, what they got right, and what they'd do differently.