Comment by emmanueloga_

The whole incident report is interesting, but I feel like the most important part of the solution is buried here [0]:

* "We're adding timeouts to prevent user requests from waiting excessively long to retrieve assets."

When you get to the size of Canva, you can't forget your AbortController and exponential backoff on your Fetch API calls.

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0: https://www.canva.dev/blog/engineering/canva-incident-report...