# Clients are Jerks: aka How Halo 4 DoSed the Services at Launch & How We Survived

- **期号**: SRE Weekly Issue #7（2016-01-24）
- **作者**: —
- **链接**: http://caitiem.com/2015/06/23/clients-are-jerks-aka-how-halo-4-dosed-the-services-at-launch-how-we-survived/

## 简介

This article is gold.  CatieM explains why clients can’t be trusted, even when they’re written in-house.  She describes how her team avoided an outage during the Halo 4 launch by turning off non-essential functionality.  Had she trusted the clients, she might not have built in the kill switches that let her shed the excessive load caused by a buggy client.

## 正文

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