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> since RDS read replicas were no longer transmitting enough data to stay up.

As an infra guy, I’ve seen similar things happening multiple times. This could be a non problem if developers handled the connection lost case, reconnection with retries and stuff.

But most developers just don’t bother.

So we’re often building elastic infrastructure that is consumed by people that write code as if we were still on the late 90ies with the single instance dbs expected to be always available.



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