August 2018
Beginner
594 pages
22h 33m
English
Content preview from Software Architect's Handbook
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Graceful degradation
Graceful degradation is a fault recovery approach in which some functionality is made unavailable in order to prevent the entire system from becoming unusable. If failures are preventing the entire software system from being operational, then some functions can be dropped in favor of others. For example, if a system is running low on resources, the most critical functions can be kept working while others are shut down.