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Re:AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem by thebootstrapper on Friday April 29, 2011 @05:48AM (#2496865)
One of the main cause for "re-mirroring storm," is node not backing off from finding a replica.

Here's Twitter Back off decider implementation (Java)

https://github.com/twitter/commons/blob/master/src/java/com/...

When last time i looked i was little clueless on this. Now I find its usage.

Re:AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem by biot on Friday April 29, 2011 @06:38AM (#2496945)
Actual URL with Libya dependency removed: https://github.com/twitter/commons/blob/master/src/java/com/...

HN doesn't have a 140 character limit, so there's no need to post an obfuscated shortened link.

Re:AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem by thebootstrapper on Friday April 29, 2011 @06:57AM (#2496974)
My fault. Edited the link. Thanks.