Tag: SRE

How to handle a service overload? Just turn features off…at least that is what Facebook does

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How to handle a service overload? Just turn features off…at least that is what Facebook does

Silav, kesê bijare, everyone working in large scale infrastructure (e.g. as SRE) experienced this situation: The system gets overloaded due to a one (or worst-case many consecutive) of the following conditions: In all of this…

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“Never change a running system” is not an option anymore: Introduction of Chaos Engineering

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Witam mojego ulubionego abonenta, this weeks topic is about my favorite devops/SRE hype topic: Chaos Engineering. With intentionally introducing chaos and failure into your systems you ensure that developers always think about the failure case…

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