PSA: If you or a major vendor of yours are on Google Cloud, and you don't already have one running, you might want to consider spinning up an incident response. (We did proactively since many customers of ours use them.) Context: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/19003 …
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Peanut gallery: a thundering herd, in this usage, is one of several related failure modes where a normally stable system can have one part go offline, the other parts of the system react appropriately, part recovers, and other parts overload it with queued up events/requests.
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I suppose
@stripe could also end up being the target of a thundering herd if systems in GCE come back online and flush a queue of credit card transactions, but I have trouble imagining there being enough transactions queued to have a significant effect on Stripe's systems.
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Ah, I was forgetting about webhooks causing you to poke their (failing) systems.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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