While a mitigation is any action you might take to reduce the impact of a breakage—such as SSHing into an instance and clearing the cache or switching off machines to close down a vulnerability—generic mitigations are actions that first responders can take even before the root cause is fully understood. As such, they’re useful for addressing a wide variety of outages. Every service should employ at least one or two generic mitigations to minimize outage impacts. In this Spotlight on Cloud, Jennifer Mace, site reliability engineer at Google, shows you how to distinguish between specific and generic mitigations and how to identify what generic mitigations your service might need.

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