End-to-end software performance fundamentals: latency, throughput, percentiles, bottlenecks, and measuring user-perceived speed without breaking reliability.

Thundering herd: when many clients do the same work at once and overload a dependency. Understand why it happens, what it looks like, and how to reduce risk.

Retry storm: when retries multiply load and turn partial failures into outages. Learn how they happen, how to detect them, and how to prevent them.

Load shedding rejects work during overload so systems stay usable. Learn why it matters, what it looks like, and how it prevents retry storms.

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On November 18, 2025, a routine database permission change at a major CDN provider triggered a global network collapse that lasted nearly four hours. Millions of websites returned 5xx errors, leaving businesses blind as even vendor status pages went dark. The incident exposed a critical gap: enterprises rely too heavily on vendor-reported health signals instead of independently verifying service availability from the user's perspective.

InfoScale showed up at the 66th IT Press Tour with a clear message: enterprise resilience needs to move beyond infrastructure-only approaches. The company, now part of Cloud Software Group, has been p...

Retry storm: when retries multiply load and turn partial failures into outages. Learn how they happen, how to detect them, and how to prevent them.