# Remediations Before Ghosting and the Role of Doubt  Author:: Voicenotes  ## AI-Generated Summary None ## Highlights > Okay, this is still on the topic of ghosting and some sort of circuit breaker pattern, because the first one only lasted for a minute, so I'm not sure why that was. But what I was saying was there is a point at which, let's say there's a component that's receiving a lot of traffic. You're not going to want to shut off all communication with the problem component right away. you're going to want to try to adapt to that change in load so you probably try to use a load balancer and try to reroute the traffic you know have other nodes that maybe can shoulder part of the load part of the traffic and then you might implement some sort of priority based fallback system. So you, you could do that. You could do some rate limiting. So it's all these interventions that you might have to do before. And you should try those first. Um, all these remediations before you do anything else, anything more drastic. So what would be drastic? A drastic thing would be a rollback. I think sometimes this is the first thing that people do actually. but like sometimes when you just can't figure it out and or maybe testing doesn't reproduce the defect and yet it clearly is occurring or you just don't have the time to do the remediation right now then probably the safest thing to do would be to implement a rollback which means falling back to the previous version that worked the point is that you don start with that the point is that you should do the other stuff first what else would be the equivalent of like ghosting um it could mean re-architecting the whole thing maybe this is something that I can relate not just to site reliability engineering but also to nihilism and Nishitani KG's version of nihilism and about how doubt is a form of care those remediations that you do before the actual ghost thing happens that could be in the form of questions so it's it's it's encouraging the doubt and trying to see like well something happened so where could it have gone wrong something had to have gone wrong so let's try and find it so even these things that we thought were previously working maybe they still are maybe it's time to question those assumptions and the goal here is not to just question endlessly or to just prove that something fails the goal is ultimately to to try to fix it and in that way doubt is a form of care a doubt is necessary that questioning period the remediation is necessary before the final ghosting even the ghosting itself may eventually be necessary, but at least you've done all the other stuff beforehand.