I think they meant the person and who they are as "level 8".
In other words, if you have this communication protocol, when it reaches level 8 the message might not be delivered or be misinterpreted based on the person. For example in this thread with some people seeing this as racist, some people see it as nothing.
The article says this repeatedly, but it's also wrong about that. QUIC doesn't use exactly the same three-way handshake at the beginning of the session -- but it uses a handshake that lasts at least 3 packets.
The paper discusses the fundamental problem with microservices architecture. It solves the fundamental problem by proposing a technique to develop monoliths with logical boundaries.
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2) Transaction log - It forms the backbone of the durability layer. It handles data replication, leader election, and data recovery.
3) Off-box recovery - It offloads recovery of failed nodes to ephemeral clusters and S3 for performance improvements.