System Design

Lesson 09 · 12 min

Reliability and observability

SLOs, retries with backoff, circuit breakers and how to find out what exactly broke.

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In a distributed system something breaks all the time: a server dies, an external API slows down, a disk fills up. The goal is not zero failures but a system that survives them, and a way for you to quickly see what is going on.

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