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SYSE.40:8 - Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them

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Size everything by average requests per second.Inspect actual resource cost and supported expensive variants.
Add an unbounded queue to avoid rejections.Bound waiting and expose work that cannot finish usefully.
Assume autoscaling solves a shared dependency limit.Qualify the bottleneck and the time/capacity available to scale.
Retry at every layer until the task succeeds.Reconcile effects and bound total retries, deadlines and offered load.