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Design systems to tolerate faults and limit their impact
The guide covers fault avoidance, failure scope, limiting impact, runtime handling, and recovery measurement. These are practical design concerns for maintaining reliable large-scale systems.
- Point
- A failure-proof software system cannot be guaranteed, even when its application code is correct.
- Point
- Designing for failure means deciding in advance how a system should behave when some parts are not working correctly.
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