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Jack Shirazi

Fastly, Google and Amazon’s “Bug Already Present” Pattern Caused 3 Biggest Outages This Year

In all cases, a bug that wasn’t triggered until long after release caused a cascade of failures

Jun 30, 2021

pieces of a broken plate spread on the floor

Jun 30, 2021

What Reliability Engineers can learn from Google’s December 2020 OAuth Outage

Five Takeways to Apply to Your Reliability Strategy

Jun 30, 2021

Shatter flower pots

Jun 30, 2021

What Reliability Engineers can learn from Amazon’s November 2020 Kinesis Outage

Six Takeways to Apply to Your Reliability Strategy

Jun 30, 2021

What Reliability Engineers can learn from Amazon’s November 2020 Kinesis Outage

Jun 30, 2021

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How To Export Medium Stats for Monthly Analysis

Learn how to generate and retain monthly stats on Medium

Jun 23, 2021

The Moon changing size, shape, and color over time

Jun 23, 2021

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Microservices Are Not a Technical Solution, They’re a Teamwork Solution

The first answer to “make this more reliable” isn’t “make it a set of microservices”

Apr 29, 2021

An overhead view of uncooked spaghetti in a pot of water.

Apr 29, 2021

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Traffic Shedding, Rate Limiting, Backpressure, Oh My!

How to stop your service from getting overloaded

Mar 25, 2021

Options to avoid overloading of web applications. eg. scaling, overprovisioning, queuing, rate-limiting, backpressure, shedding.

Mar 25, 2021

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The Cost of 100% Reliability

How do reliability costs stack up? Where do they come from?

Mar 31, 2020

Tree supported by a large sculpted hand

Mar 31, 2020

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Practical JVM GC tuning for everyone

The modern garbage collection tuning procedure for JVMs

Feb 20, 2020

people holding trash cans: young person — young generation collector; twins — parallel collector; an old man — old generation

Feb 20, 2020

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DevOps = Dev + ErrorBudget + Ops

In this decade we entered a new era of IT: rapid release as a standard. This practice has grown from niche to such a common practice that…

Jun 19, 2019

DevOps = Dev + ErrorBudget + Ops

Jun 19, 2019

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Optimizing your server by limiting request overheads

Success is a double-edged sword — increased request volume and more edge case requests stress your server. Many a server has failed…

Jan 17, 2019

Optimizing your server by limiting request overheads

Jan 17, 2019

Jack Shirazi

Jack Shirazi

Working in the Elastic Java APM agent team. Founder of JavaPerformanceTuning.com; Java Performance Tuning (O’Reilly) author; Java Champion since 2005

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