Key take-away: "best practice" approach to retries help when failures are transient, but can make things worse when failures are systemic. Token bucket approaches can avoid many (but not all) retry-related problems: brooker.co.za/blog/2022/02...

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My third talk at re:Invent this year was about patterns for system resilience. Here, I talk about the trouble with retries, metastability, the power of simulation, and some techniques for tackling tail latency: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvHd...

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Holy shit. @adamhjk.me's talk on Open Source was just as great as everyone said. It sounded like @kelseyhightower.com made him do it; if so, thanks to you both. These things needed to be said. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmhY...

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I made a @deno.land alias to serve the current directory using built-in file server. This replaces `npx serve` for me. If you've got an easier one LMK! #deno

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Is there any appetite for a blog on how to save 85% on your AWS RDS instance by replacing it with a bunch of open source tools and a couple of python scripts.

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