Bulletproof API's
summary
Uses percentiles to set timeouts (p95 ≈120ms, p99 ≈953ms), implements retries with max attempts and exponential backoff, and wraps critical calls in a circuit breaker using fuse library on Elixir with a standard HTTP client. Applied to the authorization API for World Cup login gating, the setup routes around failing dependencies and “rescues” thousands of users at peak minutes (2k–7k rescued in spikes) and helps the platform reach 1.2 million simultaneous viewers.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
- 3:01East-west traffic patterns
- 6:22Detecting and handling failures
- 11:44Long-term failures and circuit breakers
- 17:17Real-world case study World Cup
- 25:27Global.com opportunities and closing
