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Yes! LIFO is a fantastic improvement. This suggestion is buried in the article a bit. Maybe I should have elevated it, or maybe broken it into more pieces. There’s so much to talk …

Good point around avoiding the call in the first place. This is a very tricky topic, I’ve found. Things that try to guess the nuanced health of a dependency can lead to outages whe…

These remain as great techniques! Even iptables like you mention - it’s extremely good at cheaply shedding new handshakes, vs later on in processing the request. You lose a little …

Agreed - utilization is an important consideration here. The capacity red line will still be there, but when load shedding is effective, the impact of crossing that red line is les…

It’s a tricky topic because load shedding is a last resort that kicks in when there’s already a problem. So until auto scaling catches up or the issue is mitigated some other way, …

This is a great way to describe it! I gave a similar example of pagination and how the later pages might be better to prioritize over initial pagination requests, but your example …

Good point. We should use more images. I’ll think about where we can add some for clarity! Now that we’ve done a bunch of talks at reinvent in these topics, we should have some tha…

One of the authors here. I agree with all the folks’ suggestions here! When I was in college, I took extra writing courses beyond what was required for an engineering degree (they …