Designing Resilient APIs
APIs should fail gracefully and recover predictably. Techniques like circuit breakers, bulkheads, and retries with jitter reduce cascading failures and improve availability.
Core Patterns
Timeouts and proactive circuit breakers
Idempotent endpoints to safely retry
Bulkheads for resource isolation
Testing
Chaos testing and synthetic traffic validate fallback strategies and reveal brittle dependencies.
Operational Advice
Monitor tail latencies and error budgets; iterate on SLOs to align engineering priorities with customer impact.
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