I enjoyed this piece. One piece of hard learned advice: add exponential back off in failure to your clients, now. It'll take only a small amount of work, and wi

I enjoyed this piece. One piece of hard learned advice: add exponential back off in failure to your clients, now. It'll take only a small amount of work, and will save you from the inevitable self DDOS when your ingestion endpoint hiccups, and clients' buffered data creates a load so large that you may not be able to recover.