Chapter 6. Design Patterns for Resiliency
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
—Winston Churchill
Resiliency is a system’s ability to constructively deal with failures. A resilient system detects failure and routes around it. Nonresilient systems fall down when faced with a malfunction. This chapter is about software-based resiliency and documents the most common techniques used.
Resiliency is important because no one goes to a web site that is down. Hardware fails—that is a fact of life. You can buy the most reliable, expensive hardware in the world and there will be some amount of failures. In a sufficiently large system, a one in a million failure is a daily occurrence.
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