The Reconnection Storm: How Naive WebSocket Retry Loops Trigger Thundering Herds
The Reconnection Storm: How Naive WebSocket Retry Loops Trigger Thundering Herds 1. Post-Mortem of an Incident: Reconnection Cascades and Connection Pool Exhaustion This vulnerability surfaced during stress testing of a high-concurrency WebSocket gateway provisioned to hold thousands of persistent…
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The Reconnection Storm: How Naive WebSocket Retry Loops Trigger Thundering Herds