A distributed system is a collection of computer programs that work together to achieve a common goal. For example, Spotify uses a distributed network of servers to store and deliver music and podcasts to its users. By Bassam Ismail and Hanush Kumar.
Resilience strategies provide a foundation for building robust, scalable, and reliable distributed applications and services. This blog post explains:
- Timeouts and automatic retries
- Deadlines
- Circuit breakers
- Redundancy and replication
- Graceful degradation
- Chaos engineering
- Health checks and monitoring
- Load balancing
The increasing cost of downtime highlights the critical need for resilient distributed systems to build apps. By using strategies like circuit breakers and redundancy, businesses strengthen their applications and handle potential issues in advance. Interesting read!
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