[nicoburns]

> The mistake of ignoring the maxage of the request queue is perhaps the second most common blind spot in every Ops team I've ever worked with. No insult to my fellow Ops folks, but we've got to stop overlooking this.

What's the first?

[floatingatoll]

Non-randomized wallclock integers.

For example: “sleep 60 seconds”, “cron 0 * * * * command”, “X-Retry-After: 300”

Found in: recurring jobs, backoff algorithms, oauth tokens.

Found in: ops-created tasks, dev-released software.

[encoderer]

I'm building something at Cronitor to help detect those hot-spots! If you want to learn more, email me: shane at cronitor.io

[floatingatoll]

Tell us more here!