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
· 2 min read
The average is a fiction and the p99 is a person. Reading latency distributions the way the review reads them, shape first.
#reviews#latency#observability
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