Circuit Breaker Anti-Patterns: When Protection Causes Outages
Circuit breakers prevent cascading failures but wrong config makes them worse. I show 5 anti-patterns: shared breakers, wrong thresholds, instant open, no fallback, and testing gaps.
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gRPC Deadline Propagation: Preventing Cascading Failures
Frontend gives up after 5s but backend keeps working for 30s. Without deadline propagation, you waste resources on doomed requests. I show how to implement it in Go.
gRPC in Kubernetes: Why Service Round-Robin Lies
Why one pod has 90% of traffic with gRPC. Reproducible lab, solutions from client-side LB to service mesh, and production checklist.
gRPC Keepalive Mismatch: Transport Closing After Idle
gRPC connections randomly close with 'transport is closing'. The cause: client and server keepalive settings don't match, causing the server to terminate idle connections.