cloud-test: How to avoid a self-inflicted DDoS Attack - CRE life lessons

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How to avoid a self-inflicted DDoS Attack - CRE life lessons

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Posted by Dave Rensin, Director of Customer Reliability Engineering, and Adrian Hilton, Software Engineer, Site Reliability EngineeringEditor’s noteLeft unchecked, poor software architecture decisions are the most common cause of application downtime. Over the years, Google Site Reliability Engineering has learned to spot code that could lead to outages, and strives to identify it before it goes into production as part of its production readiness review. With the introduction of Customer Reliability Engineering, we’re taking the same best practices we’ve developed for internal systems, and extending them to customers building applications on Google Cloud Platform. This is the first post in a series written by CREs to highlight real-world problems — and the steps we take to avoid them.recent high profile event——
Even distributions that aren’t
“It ain’t what we don’t know that hurts us so much as the things we know that just ain’t so.”I have lots of users all over the world. For simplicity, I’m going to assume their load will be evenly distributedsteady statestatic
#1 Try exponential backoff

#2 Add a little jitter ——

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#3 Implement retry marking
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