Circuit Breaker Pattern: Failing Fast to Stay Resilient
How the circuit breaker pattern stops a failing dependency from cascading into a full outage: the closed, open, and half-open states, and what to monitor.
Retry Storms: Exponential Backoff and Jitter Explained
Why naive retries turn a blip into a retry storm, and how exponential backoff, jitter, and retry budgets stop a system from amplifying its own failures.
Graceful Degradation: Designing Systems That Fail Well
What graceful degradation means, how it differs from fault tolerance, patterns like fallbacks and circuit breakers, and how to monitor a degrading system.
Chaos Engineering Explained: Breaking Things on Purpose
What chaos engineering is, how a controlled experiment works, the role of monitoring and blast radius, and how to start small without causing real outages.