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Blockchain Quick Reference
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Blockchain Quick Reference

by Brenn Hill, Samanyu Chopra, Paul Valencourt
August 2018
Beginner to intermediate
350 pages
11h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Resiliency

Resiliency is the ability of a system to adapt and keep working in response to changes and challenges. Resiliency can only be discussed in the context of the types of events that a system is resilient towards. A system might be resilient to a few computers getting turned off but may not be resilient to nuclear war.

Resiliency can be broken down into different sub-categories:

  • Fault tolerance: The ability of the system to deal with invalid states, bad data, and other problems
  • Failure isolation: A problem in one part of the system does not infect other parts of the system. Bad data or system failure in one place does not result in problems elsewhere
  • Scalability: A scalable system under heavy use is able to provide additional capacity ...
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ISBN: 9781788995788