6 Designing reliable services
This chapter covers
- The impact of service availability on application reliability
- Designing microservices that defend against faults in their dependencies
- Applying retries, rate limits, circuit breakers, health checks, and caching to mitigate interservice communication issues
- Applying safe communication standards across many services
No microservice is an island; each one plays a small part in a much larger system. Most services that you build will have other services that rely on them — upstream collaborators — and in turn themselves will depend on other services — downstream collaborators — to perform useful functions. For a service to reliably and consistently perform its job, it needs to be able to trust ...
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