Algo Brief on Instagram: "🦟 Interesting fact: In large distributed systems, “probing” (like health checks) can become a hidden source of outages if misconfigured. For example, Kubernetes liveness probes that are too aggressive can repeatedly kill pods during brief GC pauses or CPU spikes — turning a minor slowdown into a full restart storm. At scale, thousands of probes firing every few seconds can also generate significant internal traffic, meaning the mechanism meant to detect failure can act