From here to resilience - a travel guide
summary
Resilience is defined as the ability to handle expected failures, surprises, and even become better afterwards; it’s not just robustness. The path maps five plateaus: feature completeness, stability, robustness, basic resilience and a peak of continual learning. Practical measures move from redundant deployments, timeouts retries circuit breakers rate limiting autoscaling and monitoring to observability, chaos engineering, fire drills, self‑organized teams and built‑in slack. Targets include measurable availability like 99.9% availability and telecom examples of multi‑decade near‑zero downtime; surprises force socio‑technical changes and faster recovery, not only more tooling.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:47Defining resilience
- 8:34Journey begins
- 15:38Stability plateau
- 19:55Robustness plateau
- 28:30Basic resilience plateau
- 33:13Peak resilience
- 35:41When to stop
- 38:12Q&A
