A while ago I published a short Twitter thread explaining a few of the problems I had run into while running their [enterprise] clustering solution; it’s been quite a painful process and I would like to write down the alternative architecture I ended up with while looking for improvements.

The original scenario

The original scenario I was working at was composed of a cluster of Go API servers backed by an InfluxDB database. Original service requirements demanded to deploy a fault-tolerant datastore so that’s the reason an InfluxDB cluster was put in place.