Timeouts, retries in microservices

Issues

• https://dzone.com/articles/the-hardest-part-of-microservices-calling-your-ser

• Ripple effects causing a distributed system to fail https://blog.runscope.com/posts/phil-sturgeon-taking-a-timeout-from-poor-performance

• Tuning timeouts and retries at scale https://mux.com/blog/tuning-timeouts-and-retries-at-scale/

Patterns

• https://dzone.com/articles/performance-patterns-in-microservices-based-integr

• https://itnext.io/5-patterns-to-make-your-microservice-fault-tolerant-f3a1c73547b3

• Timeouts, retries, and backoff with jitter on AWS, but applicable elsewhere «https://d1.awsstatic.com/builderslibrary/pdfs/timeouts-retries-and-backoff-with-jitter.pdf?did=ba_card-body&trk=ba_card-body»

Deep dive into nginx

• https://www.nginx.com/blog/troubleshooting-application-performance-and-slow-tcp-connections-with-nginx-amplify/

Chaos monkey

• https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy