Blockchain
The Solution That Went Looking for Problems
Byzantine Failure
The Server That Lies With Conviction
Cascading Failure
Resilience All the Way Down, Then Sideways, Then Into the Phone
Chaos Monkey
The Primate That Breaks Things So You Don't Have To
Dogpile Effect
When Everyone Rebuilds the Cache at Once and Nobody Gets Cached
MapReduce
A Programming Model for Processing Large Datasets by Pretending It Was Invented in 2004
Rate Limiting
The Art of Saying "Slow Down" to Things That Cannot Hear
Retry Storm
The Patient Dies of the Medicine
Split Brain
When Both Halves of the Cluster Are Right, and the Data Is Wrong
Thundering Herd
When Politeness Becomes a Distributed Denial of Service