architecture Reinforcing vs. Balancing Feedback Loops: Why Retries Can Make an Outage Worse josedacruz, August 3, 2026August 3, 2026 You get paged at 2am. A payment service is running slow. You watch the dashboard, and something strange happens: the more you look at it, the worse it gets. Error rates climb. Latency climbs. Then, ten minutes after the first alert, the whole checkout system goes down — not because… Continue Reading