Steps to Great Service/App Resilience

Harry Martland
ITNEXT
Published in
5 min readJan 9, 2020

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Credit: Cloudflare

Often I see developers rushing into ‘adding resilience’ to applications without thinking about some of the fundamentals. I have put this list together to try help guide people to build resilient applications correctly and by adding the right amount of resilience. Don’t just implement the cool new circuit breaker technology without doing the basics first!

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Principal Software Engineer at Booking.com — Transport, writing mainly about observability, reliability and building applications ‘well’