Glossary term
What is thundering herd? Meaning for developers
A crowd of clients that all act at the same instant, such as all retrying together, and overload a service.
Learn it properly · Observability & SRELesson 7: Reliability Patterns: Timeouts, Retries, Circuit Breakers and Graceful DegradationFailure modes, timeouts and retries with backoff, circuit breakers, bulkheads, load shedding, tested with fault injection.