Chapter 8. Strategies for fault tolerance and monitoring
This chapter covers
- What is latency?
- Why do microservices need to be fault tolerant?
- How do circuit breakers work?
- What tools can mitigate against distributed failure?
You’ll use the example from the previous chapters to expand the functionality of Stripe and Payment to include fault mitigation as you explore the concepts of fault tolerance and monitoring. Fault tolerance is especially important when your Payment microservice is communicating over a network to external systems. You need to expect failures and time-outs when communicating across networks.
8.1. Microservice failures in a distributed architecture
Figure 8.1 revisits what your distributed architecture for microservices ...
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