How to Avoid Cascading Failures in Distributed Systems

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How to Avoid Cascading Failures in Distributed Systems

Cascading failures are failures that involve some kind of feedback mechanism. In distributed software systems they generally involve a feedback loop where some event causes either a reduction in capacity, an increase in latency, or a spike of errors. Laura Nolan explores them using public accounts of real production incidents.

Source: infoq.com