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Re:Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos eng... by ses1984 on Monday August 24, 2020 @03:12PM (#24264267)
Your own instances can have an unexpected CPU spike.

Even if you're running on bare metal I find it hard to believe you don't have a layer with short timeouts between your front and backend.

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Re:Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos eng... by fxtentacle on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:16PM (#24265025)
Why would I? I have redundant 1GBit LAN cables between front end, back end, and database servers.
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Re:Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos eng... by ses1984 on Monday August 24, 2020 @06:17PM (#24266165)
Because it's bad ux for your users to see a spinning loading icon forever.
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Re:Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos eng... by fxtentacle on Monday August 24, 2020 @06:36PM (#24266324)
And a timeout error would be better?
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Re:Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos eng... by ses1984 on Monday August 24, 2020 @09:55PM (#24267491)
In my experience, yes, a lot better.
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