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3 articles tagged Incidents
DevOps9 min read
Traditional monitoring answers whether a request succeeded. A feature that returns a confident, well-formed, incorrect answer succeeds every time — so the signals have to be different.
Software Architecture9 min read
Flags are cheap to add and nobody owns removing them. A codebase with three hundred of them has 2^300 configurations, none of which is tested, and one of which is production.
DevOps10 min read
Three retries at each of four layers is 81 requests for one user action. We traced an outage back to our own clients and rewrote the policy.