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October 11, 2021
Los Angeles, California + Virtual
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Monday, October 11 • 10:30am - 11:00am
Health Checks: A Boon or a Curse? - Venil Noronha & John Murray, Stripe

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Health checks are an essential part of distributed systems of today that allow one to operate services in a reliable manner. Without health checks, operating a large latency-sensitive system becomes impossible. However, as the composition of environments differ, it can become a real burden to support health checks. Additionally, as the system scales, users tend to face the dreaded N-square problem, and then hit a tipping point, and traditional solutions don't seem to work. In this talk, we will discuss the benefits of health checks in Envoy, some problems we have encountered at scale at Stripe, and options to mitigate such issues.
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John Murray

Software Engineer, Stripe
John is an infrastructure Engineer working on the Service Networking team at Stripe. He is an occasional contributor to Envoy proxy and has spent most of his career working with web-services.
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Venil Noronha

Software Engineer, Stripe
Venil Noronha is an engineer with the Service Networking team at Stripe. He contributes upstream to open source projects in the service mesh domain, like Istio and Envoy proxy. In the past, he has contributed to several open source projects including Kubernetes, Spring, and Golan... Read More →

Health Checks A Boon or a Curse? pdf
Monday October 11, 2021 10:30am - 11:00am PDT
Room 502 AB + Online
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