https://wid-blog.github.io/en/tags/cascading-failure/Recent content in Cascading-Failure on wid's blogHugoenThu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://wid-blog.github.io/en/posts/career/dable/cascading-failure-retrospective/Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://wid-blog.github.io/en/posts/career/dable/cascading-failure-retrospective/An external event drove ad traffic far above normal, triggering a cascading failure. The real problem was that the filtering component was a single point of failure — and the fallback sat on top of it too, so one collapse pulled both down at once. The fix took three paths: removing the fallback’s dependency (independence), adding rate limiting to the component itself (protection), and reconsidering the runtime (throughput).