---
title: "Corrosion"
subtitle: "Original article link with an AI-written directory summary"
slug: corrosion
url: https://listedarticles.com/articles/corrosion
canonical_url: https://fly.io/blog/corrosion/
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language: en
published_at: 2025-10-22T00:00:00.000Z
updated_at: 2026-09-16T15:58:11.688Z
author: "Thomas Ptacek, Peter Cai"
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publisher: "Fly.io Blog"
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topics: ["Distributed Systems", "Reliability"]
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license: all-rights-reserved
word_count: 79
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citation: "Thomas Ptacek, Peter Cai, Fly.io Blog. \"Corrosion.\" 22 Oct 2025. https://fly.io/blog/corrosion/ (all-rights-reserved)"
---

# Corrosion

*Original article link with an AI-written directory summary*

> Thomas Ptacek and Peter Cai examine Corrosion, Fly.io's state-synchronization system. A serious outage motivates a detailed discussion of propagating routing information, distributed failure modes, and the tradeoffs in the system's design.

[Read the original article](https://fly.io/blog/corrosion/)

Thomas Ptacek and Peter Cai examine Corrosion, Fly.io's state-synchronization system. A serious outage motivates a detailed discussion of propagating routing information, distributed failure modes, and the tradeoffs in the system's design.

**Original authors:** [Thomas Ptacek](https://listedstartups.com/people/thomas-ptacek-2dqxcog64cax0), [Peter Cai](https://listedstartups.com/people/peter-cai-0hwwkbnbkuiy1)

**Publication:** [Fly.io Blog](https://fly.io/blog/)

**Source publication date:** 2025-10-22.

This entry is an AI-written directory summary of the linked work. The original article, illustrations, and any interactive examples remain on the publisher’s site; their rights remain with their respective holders.