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		jluxenberg on April 7, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter releases Gizzard, a framework for creating... If a shard goes down, writes to it are queued on a Gizzard middleware host. What happens if that Gizzard host is then lost?

eaceaser on April 7, 2010 [–]

The queues are local to each host so you'd lose those writes, but since writes are written to a journal on disk, you can apply some redundancy strategy to that as necessary. Depends on the SLA really.

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