(Author here.) I thought this was an interesting problem we ran into, especially in light of yesterday's "Kubernetes is hard" discussion https://news.ycombinato

(Author here.) I thought this was an interesting problem we ran into, especially in light of yesterday's "Kubernetes is hard" discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35331887 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35331887 . It's a failure mode that's not exclusive to Kubernetes, but can happen in production anytime there's a self-monitoring/self-restarting feedback loop with potential for a backlog to build.