Architecture advice that starts with the load path.
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· 2 min read
A Google Cloud outage severed inter-zone traffic while health checks on a separate address space kept reporting healthy. Probes that avoid the data path measure the wrong thing.
#observability#health-checks#incident-analysis
· 3 min read
CircleCI's July 2 outage came from connections that never timed out. A slow dependency became an unavailable product, and the review question is which of your calls wait forever.
#resilience#timeouts#incident-analysis
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