Problem: Client retries every n seconds when it receives a 5xx error. This causes outage amplification Proposed fix: Rebuild the entire backend in a different

Problem: Client retries every n seconds when it receives a 5xx error. This causes outage amplification Proposed fix: Rebuild the entire backend in a different language. estimated time to outage mitigation: 6-12 months. Now colour me "inexperienced" but I'd personally push a fix for exponential backoff to the client.