Beginning Helidon: Building Cloud-Native Microservices and Applications

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7. Resiliency

Dmitry Kornilov¹  , Daniel Kec¹ and Dmitry Aleksandrov²

(1)

Praha, Czech Republic

(2)

Sofia, Bulgaria

 

This chapter covers the following topics.

• Using the retry mechanism

• Defining the fallback method

• Invoking a method asynchronously

• Limiting the method execution time

• Controlling the number of parallel executions

• Combining Fault Tolerance features

Failure in your service is inevitable! Sounds grim, but it should be no surprise for any developer that something won't work as expected at some point in the program’s life cycle. The more complex the system becomes, the ...