Bound everything!

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This is an old unpublished post. Published now.

Bounds are important. Unbounded or only partially bounded resources and operations pose a risk to latency and availability of your service.

  • Bound resource usage (e.g. limit thread pool size)
  • Bound queries (e.g. put a where condition limiting the date range, don’t make it open on one side or worse both sides; if it makes sense use the”limit” features in queries)
  • Bound time spent waiting on a dependency

On a similar vein, ensure you validate user input against limits before working on them or passing them on to dependencies.

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Originally published at https://www.floatingpoint.ca on May 13, 2018.

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Aishwar Muthuraman
Aishwar Muthuraman

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