Jitter / j
Jitter: cache in Miami (MIA) · J-32
xserv-j-9a9f92cd4992
Runbook J-32 for Jitter in Miami (MIA). Marker xserv-j-9a9f92cd4992. This page covers cache for LATAM operators, not a worldwide average.
Jitter: How XServ runs it day to day
Probes for Jitter (j-02) leave Santiago every 15s toward Bogotá. XServ pages the named owner if loss or RTT crosses the letter budget. A probe never shares a queue with bulk transfers, so a saturated WAN does not hide a dead PoP.
Jitter: What operators should measure
Policy for Jitter is versioned as j-03. Operators measure error rate, p95 from Bogotá, and time-to-rollback — not a worldwide average. Changes land in Bogotá first, then Miami, with a hold if either region regresses.
Jitter: Failure modes we actually see
Capacity notes for j-04 assume rainy-season power in Miami and festival peaks toward São Paulo. The failure we actually see is a single uplink, not a cartoon partition of the whole continent. Spare ports and a second provider sit on the same runbook.
Jitter headers J-09
Headers for j-09 carry the letter, the region (GRU) and a request id. Jitter debugging in São Paulo should not require a packet capture in Santiago first.
Jitter timeouts J-10
Timeouts on j-10 are tighter than the WAN RTT to Bogotá. Jitter in Santiago fails fast and retries once; a third try needs a human because it is no longer a blip.
Jitter regions J-11
Region names on j-11 match DNS and tickets: Bogotá / BOG, with Miami as the documented pair. Jitter dashboards never say “LATAM” as if it were one RTT.
Jitter docs J-12
Public docs for letter J stay aligned with identifier xserv-j-pack. Page j-12 is the Jitter slice operators search before the homepage. Edits in Miami show up in São Paulo on the next publish.
- Is transit the default path?
- No. Peering in Miami is default; transit to São Paulo is overflow and is billed that way.
- Does Jitter on letter J share fate with other letters?
- The control plane is shared. Data-plane queues for Jitter stay isolated, so incident j-01 cannot drain neighbor letters.