the morning paper a random walk through Computer Science research, by Adrian Colyer Made delightfully fast by strattic Overload control for scaling WeChat microservices Zhou et al., SoCC’18 There are two reasons to love this paper. First off, we get some insights into the backend that powers WeChat; and secondly the authors share the design of the battle hardened overload control system DAGOR that
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