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Learning from the mistakes of others A few years ago a team that worked across the office from my team came up with a neat way of introducing a cache to speed up the performance of the most business critical pages on the company's main money earning website. Page load time had been identified as a particularly significant aspect of how search engines would rank the value of websites, so getting a few milliseconds off that metric was a great achievement. Fast forward several months, the unthinkable happened as the infrastructure component that was at the heart of the caching implementation had a temporary outage, taking away the possibility of loading pages at all. It was quite a while ago, and I wasn't directly involved in the recovery process but I expect that it would have taken a stressful hour or three to recover. Avoid introducing points of failure As inevitably happens, the project that I was working on required some performance improvements in order for it to be consider...