Handling Overload and Addressing Cascading Failures

<p>This week we look at chapter 21 <a href= "https://sre.google/sre-book/handling-overload/">Handling Overload</a> and chapter 22 <a href= "https://sre.google/sre-book/addressing-cascading-failures/">Addressing Cascading Failures</a> of Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems.</p> <p>Sign up for the free companion discussion at <a href= "https://bookclub.dev/thursdays">bookclub.dev/thursdays</a>. The discussion is from 7-9 pm eastern on Thursdays.</p> <p>Overload is the leading cause of cascading failures.</p> <p>Overload is what happens when a server gets more requests than it can handle. There are basic methods for relieving server overload:</p> <ol> <li>make the requests easier to process</li> <li>add more resources</li> <li>reduce the amount of traffic</li> </ol> <p> </p>