Incident Response on Neat Guy Codinghttps://neatguycoding.com/categories/incident-response/Recent content in Incident Response on Neat Guy CodingHugo -- gohugo.ioen© 2026 NeatGuyCodingWed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000Gateway Avalanche Crisis: How Synchronous Redis Calls Nearly Brought Down Our Systemhttps://neatguycoding.com/posts/spring-cloud-gateway-avalanche/Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://neatguycoding.com/posts/spring-cloud-gateway-avalanche/A deep dive into a production incident where our Spring Cloud Gateway experienced cascading failures due to blocking Redis operations. Learn how synchronous API calls in reactive environments can cause thread starvation, leading to health check failures and system-wide avalanches, plus the complete solution using async patterns.