Five Causes Behind Most Outages: An Opinionated Taxonomy
Incidents feel infinitely varied and mostly are not. Five recurring shapes, the tell for each, and why the taxonomy is worth more during an incident than after.
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Posts tagged Incidents
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The Retry That Took Down the Service
A dependency got slow, every client retried, and the retries became the outage. The incident in order, including the twelve minutes it outlived its cause.
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