Slowing Down to Speed Up—Circuit Breakers for Slack’s CI/CD

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Frank Chen. "Slowing Down to Speed Up—Circuit Breakers for Slack’s CI/CD." slack.engineering, August 2022. Archived at perma.cc/5FGS-ZPH3

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Slowing Down to Speed Up – Circuit Breakers for Slack’s CI/CD | Engineering at Slack

What happens when your distributed service has challenges with stampeding herds of internal requests? How do you prevent cascading failures between internal services? How might you re-architect your workflows when naive horizontal or vertical scaling reaches their respective limits? These were the challenges facing Slack engineers during their day-to-day development workflows in 2020. Multiple int…

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