Links

• Honeycomb September postmortems: Honeycomb discusses several recent production issues related to rapid growth. There’s an interesting discussion at the end about operating the system at a sweet spot where you’re not under a lot of pressure handling incidents all the time on the one hand, and similarly you’re not over provisioned to the point where the challenging bits in your system are completely obscured because there’s just so much extra (often unused) capacity for it to work with. You want a healthy feedback loop where you’re operating the system somewhere near its limits and always learning but not constantly firefighting …