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Service Overload Strategies

A service overload happens when a service receives more incoming requests than it can reasonably respond to. There are many reasons that service can get overloaded. A few examples are a sudden surge in traffic, a change in the service configuration, attacks by malign actors, and more. In the event of a service overload, the service starts to behave differently. It starts returning HTTP error codes, responds…

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