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Mar 2022
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Its always Microservices - The Spotify O...

Hussein Nasser
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On March 8 2022 Spotify and Discord experienced an outage latest 2-3 hours. The reason was a configuration on the xDS formats on Google Traffic Director. Let us discuss how this change caused the outage and what Spotify did to mitigate that outage without relying on Google restoring the service back up. Resources Spotify outage https://engineering.atspotify. ... Show More
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