Author’s Note: This is a two-part series about how we implemented and operationalized load shedding in our services using adaptive concurrency control with NGINX. Part 1 sets the context/background and part 2 focusses on the implementation. I wrote about this technique in much detail last year (Part 1, 2, 3…

Author’s Note: This story was originally published on my personal blog at https://www.resilientsystems.io on 15th May 2020 and has 4 parts (Links: 1, 2, 3, 4). So far in this series, we have discussed how adaptive concurrency control works and what are the different ways to implement it in your…

Author’s Note: This story was originally published on my personal blog at https://www.resilientsystems.io on 15th May 2020 and has 4 parts (Links: 1, 2, 3, 4). The part 2 of the series, we discussed how the concurrency limits library integrates with Spring Boot applications and explored various algorithms used by…

Author’s Note: This story was originally published on my personal blog at https://www.resilientsystems.io on 15th May 2020 and has 4 parts (Links: 1, 2, 3, 4). In the second part of this series, we are going to look at Netflix’s concurrency limits library and the algorithms it uses to implement…

Author’s Note: This story was originally published on my personal blog at https://www.resilientsystems.io on 15th May 2020 and has 4 parts (Links: 1, 2, 3, 4). As the Google SRE Workbook says No service is 100% available 100% of the time. There is a multitude of factors that can cause…

Author’s Note: This story was originally published on my personal blog at https://www.resilientsystems.io on 1st May 2020. Rate limiting is one of the most discussed topics related to protecting your APIs and services from excessive use either from bad actors trying to deliberately abuse the service or buggy code. Several…

At OLX Autos, we have started adopting Istio service mesh for our EKS cluster. There are a number of features we are excited to use — circuit breaker being one of them. …

Do you use Solr? Do you use stopwords & synonyms with Solr? Do your synonyms have stopwords in them? If yes, then this article is probably for you. …