/* Code Comments */5 posts tagged with "resilience"
exponential backoffs
2022-11-28
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An exponential backoff is an algorithm for retrying requests at exponentially slower rates. Exponential backoff is a strategy for solving…
thundering herd
2022-11-28
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When lots of processes or threads are all awaiting a single event, they can be awoken simultaneously when that even occurs. Only one process…
introduce jitter to avoid the thundering herd
2022-11-28
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Jitter is a technique to introduce a degree of randomness that will result in improved performance of unreliable systems by helping to avoid…
resilience strategies
2022-11-28
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In distributed systems, nothing is certain. This includes network requests. So, how do we handle a failed network request? Do we simply…
why write?
2022-11-28
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In his annual letter to shareholders, Jeff Bezos answered a question that had been following him around for twenty years: what does Day…