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Practical Site Reliability Engineering

You're reading from   Practical Site Reliability Engineering Automate the process of designing, developing, and delivering highly reliable apps and services with SRE

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839563
Length 390 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Pethuru Raj Chelliah Pethuru Raj Chelliah
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Shailender Singh Shailender Singh
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Shreyash Naithani Shreyash Naithani
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Preface 1. Demystifying the Site Reliability Engineering Paradigm FREE CHAPTER 2. Microservices Architecture and Containers 3. Microservice Resiliency Patterns 4. DevOps as a Service 5. Container Cluster and Orchestration Platforms 6. Architectural and Design Patterns 7. Reliability Implementation Techniques 8. Realizing Reliable Systems - the Best Practices 9. Service Resiliency 10. Containers, Kubernetes, and Istio Monitoring 11. Post-Production Activities for Ensuring and Enhancing IT Reliability 12. Service Meshes and Container Orchestration Platforms 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Reliability


This section is about the reliability of applications. A circuit breaker is an important concept in reliability, as it helps us to avoid cascading failures as a result of third-party failed endpoints or failed components within your application. We may well have faced situations in which one component failure has taken our complete system down. Even though we already had DR setup and multiple availability zones, our application still failed. To solve this problem, we can implement a circuit breaker, which helps to make our services more reliable and predictable.

It helps to either degrade your service or reply with your own HTTP code, requesting that the client helps you to implement a reliable service in which your application responds with some valid return code. In our Twitter example, we can easily embed a circuit breaking code. There are numerous examples available on the internet for your reference.

It is very important to embed reliability in your code so that it can handle...

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