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Re:Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021 by floatingatoll on Monday February 01, 2021 @02:52PM (#25992863)
Non-randomized wallclock integers.

For example: “sleep 60 seconds”, “cron 0 * * * * command”, “X-Retry-After: 300”

Found in: recurring jobs, backoff algorithms, oauth tokens.

Found in: ops-created tasks, dev-released software.

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Re:Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021 by encoderer on Monday February 01, 2021 @05:26PM (#25994950)
I'm building something at Cronitor to help detect those hot-spots! If you want to learn more, email me: shane at cronitor.io
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Re:Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021 by floatingatoll on Monday February 01, 2021 @08:44PM (#25996578)
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