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We turned off Pub/Sub and nobody noticed


Our entire event-driven platform ran through a single message broker, which made it a single point of failure. So we added a second one. This is the story of building an event load balancer, the queueing theory behind it, and the chaos test where we turned off Pub/Sub in production and nobody noticed.

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