alt Hacker NewsDoesn't do you any good if the outage is in the circuit breaking layer, which it was for GitHub (this started as a load balancer outage).
Doesn't do you any good if the outage is in the circuit breaking layer, which it was for GitHub (this started as a load balancer outage).
Ideally you have levers further up from your local load balancers as well. Even at the edge. Granted you never want those to trigger but it’s better than fighting a storm while you fix things.