How We Built a Self-Healing System to Survive a Terrifying Concurrency Bug At Netflix
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A concurrency bug in Netflix's API was gradually consuming CPUs, threatening to severely impact service capacity. Engineers implemented an unconventional solution, automatically terminating and replacing a percentage of instances every 15 minutes, which maintained system stability until a permanent fix could be deployed on Monday.
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