Reliability Is Not Just About Balancing Loads - Marino Wijay

In a conversation, it came up that using load-balancers solves the reliability challenge.
The truth? It actually doesn’t. It’s a small portion of the strategy.
Around 2012, I dove into the world of Disaster Recovery and realized we could try everything but failures can and will happen.
To minimize this is to be proactive and know how to respond to something before it falls over. We couldn’t really do this in 2012, but 2024? We absolutely can.
The DR story transformed into the Reliability narrative…We now design assuming things CAN and WILL fail…
How do we make our systems more reliable?
Is Kubernetes the answer?
If it’s not just about balancing loads, what is Reliability?