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Avoiding Death Spirals in Distributed Systems

What’s a death spiral?

Single-node death spirals
A former employer of mine was contracted to build an email routing system for one of the world’s largest companies. They had me do the design and spec out the hardware, and then another group set out to build it. Read more »