Exponential Backoff And Jitter
Great go-to explainer blog post for this key distributed-systems reliability concept, from the always-solid Marc Brooker
(tags: marc-brooker distsys networking backoff exponential jitter retrying retries reliability occ)
17 Things Everyone Must Eat In Dublin
actually a fairly sane list of lunchy options — the SMS fish finger butty is a lunch staple for us Swrvers
VividCortex uses K-Means Clustering to discover related metrics
After selecting an interesting spike in a metric, the algorithm can automate picking out a selection of other metrics which spiked at the same time. I can see that being pretty damn useful
(tags: metrics k-means-clustering clustering algorithms discovery similarity vividcortex analysis data)