Case Study: Apester Shortens MTTR and Prevents Cascading Failures with Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s Linkerd

Linkerd is Apester’s ‘safety net’ against cascading failure from forgotten timeouts

Apester, an interactive content platform, faced outages caused by cascading failures in its microservice architecture. These failures occurred when developers forgot to implement timeouts on service-to-service requests. To solve this, they turned to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's service mesh technology, Linkerd.

By implementing Linkerd service profiles, Apester was able to enforce mandatory timeouts at the infrastructure level, eliminating the need to write this logic into application code. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation's solution resulted in a 50% reduction in Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR), empowered developers to self-detect issues, and helped the platform achieve six months without a single outage despite handling over 20 billion monthly requests.

Apester

Or Elimelech

Site Reliability Engineer