https://blog.turboawesome.win/tags/reliability/ Recent content in Reliability on Bits, Trades & Systems Hugo en-us Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:47:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2024/03/cache-design-as-a-reliability-practice-not-an-optimisation/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:47:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2024/03/cache-design-as-a-reliability-practice-not-an-optimisation/ Most engineers add caches to make things faster. At scale, the more important reason to design caches carefully is reliability — a cache failure should not cascade into a system failure. The patterns that prevent that are different from the patterns that optimise for speed. https://blog.turboawesome.win/2022/10/postmortems-as-a-learning-tool-structure-culture-and-follow-through/ Wed, 05 Oct 2022 11:27:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2022/10/postmortems-as-a-learning-tool-structure-culture-and-follow-through/ A postmortem that concludes with 'be more careful' has failed. The structure and culture of blameless postmortems, and why follow-through is where most teams fall short. https://blog.turboawesome.win/2022/07/on-call-culture-that-doesnt-burn-out-your-team/ Wed, 06 Jul 2022 09:55:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2022/07/on-call-culture-that-doesnt-burn-out-your-team/ On-call is a forcing function for reliability — when engineers are paged for their own systems, the feedback loop on quality is immediate. Done badly, it burns out your team. The practices that keep it sustainable. https://blog.turboawesome.win/2021/11/building-reliable-pipelines-with-go-retry-circuit-breaker-and-backoff/ Wed, 17 Nov 2021 11:41:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2021/11/building-reliable-pipelines-with-go-retry-circuit-breaker-and-backoff/ Every service that calls another service will eventually face failures. The patterns that contain those failures — retry with backoff, circuit breakers, bulkheads — are not optional for production Go services. Here's how to implement them correctly.