The Retry Storm: How We Took Down Our Own Auth Service
Why exponential backoff wasn’t enough, and how we learned that clients are part of the infrastructure.
production reliability distributed-systems post-mortem
Production lessons, system design, and backend realities.
Why exponential backoff wasn’t enough, and how we learned that clients are part of the infrastructure.
Why another engineering blog? Because reliability is a feature, and trade-offs are everything.