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The Problem Cloud applications depend on a lot of interconnected services and resources. These services are generally reliable, but transient failures are simply a reality of the Internet. While providers like Azure and AWS try their best to make sure their services are available they can’t mitigate the risk entirely. Not accounting for this in the […]
Imagine you’ve built and deployed an incredible new application that is taking the Internet by storm. At first, you were amazed at the horde of new users that were registering every day. Now after seeing how taxed your compute and data store resources are you wish it hadn’t happened quite so fast. Even after scaling up resources, you’re […]