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Designing resilient systems beyond retries (Part 2): Bulkheading, Load Balancing, and Fallbacks
This post is the second of a three-part series on going beyond retries to improve system resiliency. We’ve previously discussed about rate-limiting as a strategy to improve resiliency. In this article, we will cover these techniques: bulkheading, load balancing, and fallbacks.
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Designing resilient systems beyond retries (Part 1): Rate-Limiting
This post is the first of a three-part series on going beyond retries to improve system resiliency. In this series, we will discuss other techniques and architectures that can be used as part of a strategy to improve resiliency. To start off the series, we will cover rate-limiting.
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Context Deadlines and How to Set Them
This blog post explains from the ground up a strategy for configuring timeouts and using context deadlines correctly, drawing from our experience developing microservices in a large scale and often turbulent network environment.
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Recipe for building a widget: How we helped to “peak-shift” demand by helping passengers understand travel trends
We help to “peak-shift” demand by helping passengers understand travel trends with Grab’s data. Curious to know how we empower our passengers to make better travel decisions? Read on!
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Structured Logging: The Best Friend You’ll Want When Things Go Wrong
This blog post describes how we built a structured logging framework that integrates well with our existing Elastic stack-based logging backend, allowing us to do logging better and more efficiently.
