The Blog

Outage Simulator

A missing paradigm in observability, and what to do about it.

A discussion of graceful degradation mechanisms and their interaction with SLOs.

Getting started with Stanza using the FiberStanza example application.

We explore top-down and bottom-up overload, and the importance of protecting your most important user journeys against them. We discuss practical strategies for managing overload situations, and the challenges to ensuring they provide uninterrupted, optimal user experiences regardless of traffic fluctuations. 

An announcement of Stanza's evaluation beta, and a discussion of why traffic management is so important to software operations.

We all want a reliable service, and we've all heard things like "circuit breaking", "throttling", and "traffic management" will help. But what do these things really mean, and how do they make our systems reliable as they scale?

Unlike poetry, learning from incidents is rarely done by rote, but in this case we'll make an exception.