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Good Retry, Bad Retry: An Incident Story (medium.com)
submitted 1 day ago by beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I've never run a big system like this, but like the lead character in the story, I always figured exponential backoff would be enough. Turns out there's more.

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[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Very interesting, thanks for this article. It's funny how I notice ever more repetition of phenomena through different branches of engineering; metastable failure caused by feedback loops is possible both in mechanical and electrical engineering. Named differently though, resonance and ringing, respectively.