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The AI platform that stumbled over a JSON file

September 13, 2026
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It is an almost comical story: a platform capable of handling tens of millions of requests per second can stumble because many workers decide to read the same document in the same minute. And this is no trivial anecdote. In distributed systems, collective failures often arise from reasonable behaviors

It is an almost comical story: a platform capable of handling tens of millions of requests per second can stumble because many workers decide to read the same document in the same minute. And this is no trivial anecdote. In distributed systems, collective failures often arise from reasonable behaviors repeated at the same time. A scheduled update, a restart, a connection reused too often: each piece seems harmless until it synchronizes with thousands of copies.

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