Scale By the Bay 2021 intro video by Eynav Mass
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Claims that auto-scaling is not enough and that incremental growth plus sudden peaks created unexpected failure modes at Oribi, which handles billions of events a day. Describes replacing Ruby with its "successor" and the concrete changes to deployment, monitoring and capacity planning, recounts specific incidents called scale bumpers, the mitigations applied, and which fixes actually reduced outage frequency and peak latency.
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